[XeTeX] Ant is not TeX

[Joseph Wright]

On 27/11/2009 14:21, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote:
> 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

I believe it's a one-person project. One of the real challenges is at 
the higher level (LaTeX3, as you say, or ConTeXt Mk IV), where there are 
lots of difficult challenges.
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Joseph Wright