Re: Java text geometry

2004-07-01 Thread Christian Z.
Hi Simon! ExTeX, isn't that the name devised for NTS, but never used? Who are using that now? Is there development in that area? Yes, it is. I saw you wrote a note about it some years ago. You can find the project homepage under http://www.dante.de/projects/extex/. Although the website seems

Re: Java text geometry

2004-06-30 Thread Simon Pepping
Christian, On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 07:58:41PM +, Christian Z. wrote: Hi Peter! else. So, just ask, if there are questions. Furthermore I'm currently talking to the ExTeX people. IMO ExTeX will be _very_ similar to FOP in the end effect, but currently has different priorities. And of

Re: Java text geometry

2004-06-29 Thread Peter B. West
Christian, Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you on this. What's UTA? Peter Christian Z. wrote: Hi Peter, I didn't have a look at your work yet. So perhaps there's no reason for me to speak up at all. I personally find the Java Text API hard to extend and not very modular. So here's my

Re: Java text geometry

2004-06-29 Thread Christian Z.
Hi Peter! Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you on this. What's UTA? UTA (Unified Typesetting API) is my attempt to provide an API for typesetting that can be used by all kinds of text processing applications. The primary goals are * the ability that support for new scripts can easily

Re: Java text geometry

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Z.
Hi Peter, I didn't have a look at your work yet. So perhaps there's no reason for me to speak up at all. I personally find the Java Text API hard to extend and not very modular. So here's my request. Could you please provide some kind of hook in form of an interface so that I can easily write a