[TeX Live list dropped, TeXhax added] Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> So a font loader should be written as a sort of library with clear API > which can be used by every format. Amen. And if other add-ons could follow suit, what an enormous benefit that might bring. Although, as regular readers of the list will know, I do have philosophical problems with LaTeX, I think that my severest criticism is its monolithic nature : if you want to use any part of LaTeX's functionality, you have to use the whole caboodle, want it or not. It is, unfortunately, almost certainly too late to hope for a more modular approach, but if a new font loader /were/ to be written, with a well-defined API, callable from IniTeX, Plain TeX, LaTeX and Context (plus future, as-yet undreamed-of formats), it /might/ encourage other contributors to do likewise. Philip Taylor -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
