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Re: Preaching DSSSL (Re: using LOUT)
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Sebastian Rahtz |
Subject: |
Re: Preaching DSSSL (Re: using LOUT) |
Date: |
Wed, 3 Sep 1997 13:22:16 +0100 |
> 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
ok, now you have covered 2% of the SGML/DSSSL marketplace...
> machine with ANSI C compiler. Besides precomipled Lout is available
> as a package for most Linux distributions and for FreeBSD, so people
the same 2%
> can just say pkgadd (or whatever) and it's there. MS-DOS Lout is
0%
> availble from my ftp. On OS/2 Lout is reported to compile out ofbox
.001%
> Plan9 port should be straight, though I don't know if anyone actually
.000001%
> 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
.00000001%
what about the worlds most common environments, from the Satan
of Seattle?
> 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.
it was moderately trivial in TeX, so should be easy enough in lout
> 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?
PDF deals with the final deliverable, where Unicode doesnt matter;
true, PDF only deals with 8 bit fonts, but thats just a question of
mapping from the Unicode internal coding to the right character in an
output font.
if Lout is to be a big-time DSSSL back end, it needs to get into
Unicode internal processing, or things just go mad.
Sebastian
- 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
- Re: Preaching DSSSL (Re: using LOUT), Sebastian Rahtz, 1997/09/03