> > 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.
LaTeX monolithic? In general people complain that they have to load packages for everything ;-). Context is monolithic, but in LaTeX you only have to use a rather small kernel. And actually quite a lot of latex packages works also with plain or with mini-latex. -- Ulrike Fischer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
