[XeTeX] Ant is not TeX

Wilfred van Rooijen wvanrooijen at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 27 15:21:38 CET 2009


Interesting. Logically, if Ant is defined as "not TeX" it is basically the universal complement to TeX, i.e. "everything else", which is probably not true.

Is there anybody who knows more about this project? It sounds a bit like one of those projects like LaTeX3 or the ill-conceived reimplementation of TeX in Java - it starts off very enthousiastically but doesn't survive :-))

Cheers,
Wilfred

--- On Fri, 27/11/09, Vafa Khalighi <vafa at users.berlios.de> wrote:

> From: Vafa Khalighi <vafa at users.berlios.de>
> Subject: [XeTeX] Ant is not TeX
> To: "Persian Computing" <persian-computing at googlegroups.com>, xetex at tug.org
> Date: Friday, 27 November, 2009, 11:04 PM
> 
>   ant is a typesetting system inspired by TeX.
>   All major features of TeX are implemented. In addition
> ant provides:
> 
> a saner macro language (no catcodes);a
> builtin high-level scripting language;UNICODE
> support;support for various font formats including
> Type1, TrueType, and OpenType;
> partial support for advanced OpenType
> features;support for colour and
> graphics;simple page layout
> specifications;river detection.
>   
> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ant
> -- 
> Vafa
> 
> 
> 


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