On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 08:45:24AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
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> Well designed documents that use multiple fonts, graphical elements,
> white space, colors, pictures are far easier on one's eyes. It would
> be great if such pages can be viewed, and even better, created on
> plan9. HTML isn't just for browsers anymore! On the Mac there are some
> great apps for journal or blog writing etc that use the webkit (not
> everyone uses MS word or pages). In a way a good webkit can *vitalize*
> plan9. So more power to errno if he wants to do this!
>
Well, there is a layout engine already. Able to combine texte and
mathematical writing. It is called TeX...
I sometimes wonder what could be obtain using this engine to produce a
formatted text to insert/place as boxes on a representation mean: hard
copy is one, soft copy (screen) is just another.
All in all, that's what MetaPost does for the labels in drawing (can use
troff(1) too).
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