RE: fences (variable size math symbols)

["Reynolds, Gregg" <greynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very true.  Do you think we'll ever get a full implementation?  (By
which I mean a backend that supports the full range of DSSSL flow
objects.)  With the stampede to XML I rather doubt it; Jadetex with
table support and math support will obviously be a boon, but I wonder if
anybody will ever write the code for page models, column sets, etc.
Free code, I mean.  Actually its been a while since I've looked at
jadetex so I'm not sure how much of DSSSL it covers, so I'm assuming it
sticks pretty much to the simple-page-sequence stuff.  I don't know
enough about TeX to imagine how one would implement what's needed to
support, for example, multiple column sets with sidenotes,
crossreferences, etc., but I suspect it would be pretty tough to do
without doing a bunch of the composition internally.  Do you think it
feasible to use the Jadetex strategy to support such things?  (I
understand "jadetex strategy" to mean a more or less direct mapping of
DSSSL specs to tex macro names, so the typesetting logic goes into the
macros rather than into the DSSSL backend.  Close?)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sebastian Rahtz [SMTP:s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 09, 1998 3:41 AM
> To:	dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	RE: fences (variable size math symbols)
> 
> Reynolds, Gregg writes:
>  > 	True, it's a change, but do you recall what fun it was to learn
>  > TeX?  I sure do.  Like working with both hands chopped off.
> Actually I
>  > love TeX, but I think DSSSL will be cooler once we have a full
>  > implementation.
> a full implementation of DSSSL doesn't take us much further, unless we
> have a back end capable of rendering the flow objects. Since TeX is
> one of the few candidates for a complete, open, typesetting system
> with which to render the FOBs, we cannot go around in circles
> forever. We have to resolve the detailed issues that David is raising.
> 
> Sebastian
> 
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