Henning Hraban Ramm <fiee.visue...@gmail.com> writes: > Am 2012-05-30 um 23:04 schrieb David Kastrup: > >> Henning Hraban Ramm <hra...@fiee.net> writes: >> >>> Some lunatics ;-) spent a lot of effort re-implementing TeX in Java, >>> that was called "NTS" (new typsetting system); >> >> I would not call Karel Skoupy a lunatic. > > There’s a smiley. The LuaTeX team called itself lunatics > jokingly. (lua = moon ...) > >>> they stopped after implementing TeX compatibility (alias "OTS" = old >>> ts. system). I heard it was sluggish and ugly, but the team found the >>> last bugs in TeX >> Uh what? > > AFAIR, it was the NTS team that found the last official bug in > original TeX, involving some dotted line stuff. I blurrily remember a > talk on that event at some DANTE meeting. > But maybe it was yourself? Couldn’t find it on the internets.
I was somewhat prominent on the last bug fixing run (2006 or something?). But I don't think that the "last bugs" category can be closed while Donald Knuth is alive (once he isn't, all remaining bugs are declared "features"). > See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Typesetting_System > > Maybe Taco wasn’t involved with NTS, but Hans was. (And since at least > the ConTeXt devs are very close, I can’t imagine that Taco didn’t > participate in NTS at all.) Well, it must have been a really long time since he bowed out. Don't remember him being active in that area, and I _do_ remember some project wrapup talks by Karel (I think that in order to do something more than just a TeX reimplementation, he had implemented par shapes that could deal with non-equally spaced lines). > I don’t claim accuracy in all details. ;-) Well, obviously I can only claim accuracy as far as my memory and "gut feeling" reaches. > It doesn’t really matter who did what when. I should write less and > debug more. Who are you telling that... -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
