current state of Y&Y web site

[Murray Eisenberg]

Things I especially like about Y&Y TeX:

  (1) Support for Lucida Bright family.

  (2) Speed of rendering by DVIwindo, especially when paging (MiKTeX's
YAP crawls by comparison).

  (3) Ease of printing to a .ps file from DVIwindo.

  (4) Ease of changing switch for embedding fonts.

One thing I dislike: the non-standard directory layout for all the style
files and font-related files.


Karl Berry wrote:
> Several people have written wondering about possible Y&Y futures.
>
> It is far too early to say for sure, but it is *possible* that it will
> be reincarnated, though most likely as free software, rather than a
> commercial product with commercial support.  (I'm intentionally being
> rather vague, since the outcome is so unsettled; sorry.)
>
> Such a reincarnation would *not* include the Lucida or MathTime fonts.
> It's likely that the Lucida fonts will be available, as a commercial
> product, perhaps within a few months (if we're lucky).  But this will be
> completely separate from the software.
>
> I have two general questions for this group.  First, what makes Y&Y TeX
> special?  That is, why do you like it, compared to other
> implementations, such as miktex?  I know there is no virtual font
> support; are there are other important features you found lacking?
> Other features that are especially nice and could be integrated into
> other implementations?
>
> Second, free software lives and dies by volunteers.  If anyone here is a
> Windows programmer who would be interested in working on the project, or
> if you know any Windows developers who might be interested, *please* let
> me know.
>
> Hearing some discussion from enthusiastic and knowledgeable users will
> weigh heavily in the outcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Karl (one of the negotiators)
>

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