Re: A Modern Typesetting Language. (Was: .TQ to replace .PD 0)

2022-05-25 Thread John Gardner
Hi Ralph, Or at best, gives it through some clunky ‘treat it as a string’ mechanism. > How is that clunky? Text is text. It's opaque, honest, and universal. The foundation of the Unix Philosophy… you know this as well as I do. ;-) One could look at shoehorning evermore complexity through to the

A Modern Typesetting Language. (Was: .TQ to replace .PD 0)

2022-05-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi John, > > Support of modern font technologies and of course languages which > > aren't left-to-right. > > Agreed. But for everything else you've mentioned: it's just a matter > of writing another PDF postprocessor (or some other adapter for a > particular format). Postprocessors are where the