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Jean-Michel Hufflen Sussman and Mitchell Wand: “Revised5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme”. HOSC, Vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 7–105. August 1998. [30] Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie: The C Programming Language. 2nd edition. Prentice Hall. 1988. [31] Ronan Keryell: “BibTEX++: Towards Higher-Order BibTEXing”. In: EuroTEX 2003, p. 143. ENSTB. June 2003. [32] Jonathan Kew: “XE TEX in TEX Live and beyond”. TUGboat, Vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 146–150. EuroBachoTEX 2007 proceedings. 2007. [33] Oleg E. Kiselyov: XML and Scheme. September 2005. http://okmij.org/ftp/ Scheme/xml.html. [34] Donald Ervin Knuth: Computers & Typesetting. Vol. A: The TEXbook. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts. 1984. [35] Matthias Köppe: A BIBTEX System in Common Lisp. January 2003. http: //www.nongnu.org/cl-bibtex. [36] Philipp Lehman: The biblatex Package. Programmable Bibliographies and Citations. Version 0.7 (beta). December 2007. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ latex/exptl/biblatex/doc/biblatex.pdf. [37] Xavier Leroy, Damien Doligez, Jacques Garrigue, Didier Rémy and Jéróme Vouillon: The Objective Caml System. Release 0.9. Documentation and User’s Manual. 2004. http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ docs/manual-ocaml/index.html. [38] Bertrand Meyer: Object-Oriented Software Construction. Series in Computer Science. Prentice Hall International. 1988. [39] Microsoft Corporation: Microsoft C# Specifications. Microsoft Press. 2001. [40] Frank Mittelbach and Michel Goossens, with Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, Chris A. Rowley, Christine Detig and Joachim Schrod: The LATEX Companion. 2nd edition. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts. August 2004. [41] Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy: HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide. 5th edition. O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. August 2002. [42] Oren Patashnik: BIBTEXing. February 1988. Part of the BibTEX distribution. [43] Chris Putnam: Bibliography Conversion Utilities. February 2005. http://www.scripps. edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/ bibutils.html. [44] Erik T. Ray: Learning XML. O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. January 2001. [45] Denis B. Roegel : « Anatomie d’une macro ». Cahiers GUTenberg, Vol. 31, p. 19–27. Décembre 1998. [46] Bob Stayton: DocBook—XSL. The Complete Guide. 3rd edition. Sagehill Enterprises. February 2005. [47] Bjarne Stroustrup: The C++ Programming Language. 2nd edition. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, Massachusetts. 1991. [48] The Unicode Consortium: The Unicode Standard Version 5.0. Addison-Wesley. November 2006. [49] W3C: XSL Transformations (XSLT). Version 1.0. W3C Recommendation. Edited by James Clark. November 1999. http: //www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116. [50] W3C: XSL Transformations (XSLT). Version 2.0. W3C Recommendation. Edited by Michael H. Kay. January 2007. http:// www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xslt20-20070123. [51] Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Jon Orwant: Programming Perl. 3rd edition. O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. July 2000. [52] Thomas Widman: “Bibulus—a Perl XML Replacement for BibTEX”. In: EuroTEX 2003, pp. 137–141. ENSTB. June 2003. 412 TUGboat, Volume 29 (2008), No. 3 —Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting
Vistas for TEX: liberate the typography! (Part I) Chris Rowley Semantic Maths for All! Project Department of Mathematics and Statistics Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology Open University, London, UK c.a.rowley (at) open dot ac dot uk 1 Introduction Abstract This is a polemic in favour of liberating the core typesetting structures and algorithms around which TEX is built from the monolithic superstructure of the mini-dinosaur of a program called tex and its more or less modernised and approachable derivatives such as xetex and luatex. Although the high-level aims of the programme of activity advocated here have a lot in common with those of the very exciting and active LuaTEX project, the route I propose seems to me to be very different. The major ambition of the latter project is to embed (something similar to) the whole of the current TEX system within a vastly more complex monolith [sic] of an application which will presumably be well-adapted to the formatting needs of oriental languages. To this monolith are now being added many well-oriented intrusions [sic] into but a single instance of that ancient bedrock of TEX! Of course, luatex promises to provide a spectacularly sophisticated and highly hackable system that will eventually enable a great evolutionary radiation of species within the phylum of automated document processing; hence the importance and fascination, for me at least, of the developmental path of the LuaTEX project. Pursuing the paleontological metaphor well beyond its point of total and painful collapse, my plan can be thought of as providing many tools that can be easily dispersed in such a way that TEX’s clever genes can influence (for the good) far more aspects of the evolution of automated typesetting: all this abundance being more speedily and robustly achieved due to not being held back by the decision to build all future systems on a perfectly preserved and complete digestive system from a fossilised ancestral TEXosaur. I am here also making a plea to the Grand Technical Wizards of TUG to widen support from their development fund’s treasure chest to encompass projects that are designed to spread TEX’s influence and presence throughout the fertile modern world of document processing via its algorithms alone, without the dead weight of its monolithic, programmatic paradigm and the many somewhat dated aspects of its detailed software design. Adding topicality and an even longer time-base to the metaphors, please can we have plentiful levels of international funding to support an actual Big Bang to get the elementary particles of TEX spread throughout the typesetting universe, rather than funding only an engineering wonder (for interesting but small-scale experiments to find new TEX-like particles) such as the LHC: LuaTEX’s Hard-problems Cruncher, a ‘shining star in the East’ which I fear may spin-off some big black-holes to trap even the most energetic of us mortal, western programmers. This could easily have been the shortest genuine paper in this, or any, TEX Users Group proceedings. All it needs to say is: please support Free, Open and Reusable Algorithms from TEX (yes folks, the FORAT Campaign starts here!). However, I will attempt, in this and subsequent papers, to expand on some examples of what I mean by liberating TEX’s formatting algorithms in the form, for example, of C++ libraries, embeddable JavaScript or similar reusable artefacts. In Section 3 I shall also provide more or less deep discussions, through examples, of the most important and most difficult part of doing this in a practical and useful way: the provision of good external interfaces. But we shall begin in Section 2, with some introductory remarks (not all strictly pertinent) concerning current TEX’s use and misuse of its formatting subsystems. The paper concludes with a note on non-TEX math formatters, being an introduction to further study in this area. The whole is permeated by a sincere plea for greatly increased support, of all types and by the many TUGs and all individuals in the TEX com- TUGboat, Volume 29 (2008), No. 3 — Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting 413
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