Simon Pepping wrote:
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:50:15PM +0100, Peter B. West wrote:Fopsters,I've always been somewhat sceptical of the new approach to page breaking, although I was prepared to concede that it would be a great achievement if you pulled it off.However, the closer the development has come to fruition, the more some of my original concerns have been reinforced. Think about the enormous amount of intellectual effort that has gone into mapping the problem into Knuthian. That effort is still under way.How is this going to be maintained? Where are the Knuthian speakers who are going to do that job over the next few years?Maintaining FOP means maintaining a digital typesetting system means maintaining some of the best digital typography algorithms. I plan to resume my documenting activities in the coming months. I look forward to the challenge to document Knuth's algorithms and FOP's implementation of them in a clear and widely understandable fashion.
That's a good thing, Simon, and your documentation is very comprehensive. However, I think the question still deserves serious consideration.
Peter
SimonI'm surprised, in fact, that some of the old hands have not raised this question already.
-- Peter B. West <http://cv.pbw.id.au/> Folio <http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/>
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