On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Do you refer to engineering documents made with LaTeX, or to the >> > engineering of LaTeX itself? >> >> The latter. > > Please explain.
TeX: 8 letter font names for dos compatibility. kpathsea. zillions of TeX specific font encodings. DVIPS and MF round dimensions at will. kpathsea. string substitution language. zillions of slightly different forks (omega, nts, pdftex), weird buildchain (with fmt files, weave). As for LaTeX: Zillions of packages with zillions of versions that interact with each other unpredictably. See also http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=628691&cid=24380235 for a more articulate answer. My desire to go back to TeX for text is zero. I've been looking a bit at http://ant.berlios.de/ which seems a lot nicer, but not sure if and how we should integrate a typesetting engine in LilyPond at all. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
