Subject: Re: (dsssl) RE: The Future of DSSSL From: Jean-Marie Kubek <kubek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 03 Jan 2002 11:24:47 +0000 |
Hi sebastian (and others dssslers too :), Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 07:29:54PM +0100, Javier Farreres de la Morena wrote: >> [ .. snipp ...] >> [... snipp ... ] > As it turned out, this was a project of rapidly-diminishing returns - we got > something working quickly, which looked convincing, and it seemed a matter > of dotting the i's to get it finished. Unfortunately, the TeX backend to Jade > remains bogged down in apparently insuperable problems. Could you be more explicit here ? what are these problems ? Does jadetex needs to target some extension of basic TeX such as omega or etex ? > > In my view, it would be better to move nearly all the intelligence from > jadetex back into Jade, where it belongs, and have jade emit very low-level > TeX which can execute rapidly, without the hoo-hah and baggage of LaTeX on top. Other than the font mechanism you describe, do you have in mind other stuffs the tex backend must do in place of jadetex ? Any backend modification would greatly benefit from such a list. Jean-Marie Kubek Comp. center INSA Toulouse DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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