[Gardeners] * in Lisp

[C Y]

--- Gary King <gwking at metabang.com> wrote:

> On Feb 2, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Matthew Astley wrote:
> 
> > I was pondering TeX too, but that's not my project.
> 
> Not that this is really on topic, but you might want to explore CL- 
> Typesetting.

cl-typesetting is quite interesting.  I finally got a copy of TeX - The
Program in dead tree form, and if the author of cl-typesetting can be
persuaded to release cl-typesetting under a garden variety Modified BSD
license (it currently has some rather unique advertising restrictions)
I think it would be an awesome project to implement all the abilities
of TeX in cl-typesetting.  Lout also deserves consideration.  This is
actually what I would consider an important first step to a high
quality mathematical document interface to Axiom (my real goal) since
things like linebreaking need lots of information about the typesetting
details and a cl-typesetting program would be the perfect foundation -
given proper handling it might very well be possible to have
TeXmacs-like typesetting rendering in a WYSIWYG environment.  Of course
it would take a fair bit of work to duplicate all of the LaTeX and
LaTeX package functionality that has been created over the last couple
decades, but I suspect given the flexibility of lisp it would be quite
possible.

Cheers,
CY

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