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Re: Preaching DSSSL (Re: using LOUT)
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Valeriy E. Ushakov |
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Re: Preaching DSSSL (Re: using LOUT) |
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Wed, 3 Sep 1997 16:04:56 +0400 |
On Wed, Sep 03, 1997 at 11:19:12AM +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> From: address@hidden (Sebastian Rahtz)
> Cc: address@hidden
> on the downside, the lout backend would be limited to people with
> lout. the reason for TeX is that it is so widespread.
Given that Lout is highly portable and is very easy to install - this
is not so much a problem. Lout compiles out of box on any Unix
machine with ANSI C compiler. Besides precomipled Lout is available
as a package for most Linux distributions and for FreeBSD, so people
can just say pkgadd (or whatever) and it's there. MS-DOS Lout is
availble from my ftp. On OS/2 Lout is reported to compile out of box
(whoever done this, can you please put binaries on some ftp archive?).
Plan9 port should be straight, though I don't know if anyone actually
did this. And if I correctly understood recent posting from Chris
Herborth, he has made QNX and BeOS ports. I don't know what has
happened to Mac port, some on the list said he'd make it excluding
@Filter.
> plus, of course, it has features like a PDF-generating version,
PDF backend to Lout would be a good thing to have. As far as I can
tell, changes will be mostly local to the print service (z24.c). It's
also interesting to investigate if it is possible to propagate Lout
crossreferences into PDF.
> and a native Unicode version.
Check an old (3 Nov 1995) message from Jeff at the list archives:
<URL:http://www.ptc.spbu.ru/mail-archives/lout-pre-3.07/0100.html>
Jeff> I'm a big supporter of Unicode and I would love to port Lout to
Jeff> Unicode. At present I don't think that Adobe is doing anything
Jeff> much to support Unicode (correct me, world, if I'm wrong)
[...]
Jeff> Life would be so much easier if PostScripts fonts and font
Jeff> metric files were available (and widely distributed) in Unicode
As I haven't read PDF specs, can anyone who has tell us if PDF does
address this problem?
SY, Uwe
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- Re: Preaching DSSSL (Re: using LOUT), Pierpaolo Bernardi, 1997/09/01
- Re: Preaching DSSSL (Re: using LOUT), Paul Prescod, 1997/09/02
- Re: Preaching DSSSL (Re: using LOUT), Peter da Silva, 1997/09/03
- Re: Preaching DSSSL (Re: using LOUT), Sebastian Rahtz, 1997/09/03
- Re: Preaching DSSSL (Re: using LOUT), Peter da Silva, 1997/09/03
- Re: Preaching DSSSL (Re: using LOUT), Sebastian Rahtz, 1997/09/03
- Re: Preaching DSSSL (Re: using LOUT), Sebastian Rahtz, 1997/09/03
- Re: Preaching DSSSL (Re: using LOUT), Pieter J. Kersten, 1997/09/03