[XeTeX] Ant is not TeX

[Diederick C. Niehorster]

Sounds cool, but don't people on this list generally love catcodes (or
is that some other kind of codes, not familiar with those myself)?

More importantly, from the website the latest release seems to be from
2007, looking in the CVS, the latest commmit is more than 5 months old
already and there seems to be no activity, nor more than one
developer.

Curious to see where this will go! (Also interesting it is implemented
in Ocaml, not that common ;) )

Best,
Dee

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Wilfred van Rooijen
<wvanrooijen at yahoo.com> 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
>
> --- 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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