From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-06-08T20:20:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Project idea: Ruby Press

Hi --

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Gregory Seidman wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 04:22:37PM +0900, Victor Zverok Shepelev wrote:
>> It seems to be cool idea if somebody with strong experience of printing and
>> press would code his experience in Ruby, to have pretty DSL for making
>> "book-like" and "newspaper-like" printing.
> [...]
>> What do you think? Am I reinventing TeX?
>
> Yes, that's what I think :-)
>
> That said, it's plausible that a Ruby DSL frontend to TeX (or, more likely,
> LaTeX) would be useful to someone, in much the same way that RJS is a
> frontend to (Prototype-/Scriptaculous-backed) JavaScript. I think it would
> be a terrible waste to reimplement all the well-tuned, well-tested, and
> pretty much bug-free typesetting/flowing/layout TeX/LaTeX provides.

I once toyed with the idea of a Ruby DVI writer.  I didn't get
anywhere with it, but it might still be a good idea.


David

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