2010/4/3 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <isha...@colostate.edu>: > Typographical Ontology and Engineering: > Structured and Automated Authoring in Context > > NB: MKIV ONLY! > > The basic outline is > > > I. Ontology and Theory > II. Typographical Engineering in Context [including special topics, advanced > techniques of luatex, opentype etc] > III. A Typographical Engineer's Reference [organization of options and > commands, glossary] > IV. Appendix: Authoring in Notepad++ [or some other tool] > V. Indices > > > So no knowledge or familiarity with TeX is assumed at all. We will cover > some advanced topics as well, including introductions to luatex scripting > etc
As a computer engineer, one of the most import point of luatex-ConTeXMKIV is the possibility offered by Lua of an easy binding with external C/C++ shared library. This adds another dimension to literate programming, and in some circumstances eliminates the separation between documentation and code. For example, you can write an article in mkiv about Computational Commutative Algebra and the article *is* the program because is processed by the binding of luatex to a comp.comm.alg library Or you can write a text about electrical net and, if you have a binding to a spice library, the text is also the program that resolve the net and show the result (in a graphical manner also, thank to mplib). I'm pretty sure that there are others examples in mechanical sectors, financial sectors, combinatorial area and so on, maybe logic too. CPU power and disk storage are not a problem: 8cores-8GigaByte-1Tera computer has already reach the mass-market and context mkiv and luatex are well designed. -- luigi ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
