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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/malayalam/article/mmfuture.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/malayalam/article/mmfuture.tex deleted file mode 100644 index c253325e3d4..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/malayalam/article/mmfuture.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -% mmfuture.tex -% (c) 1992 Jeroen Hellingman -% Last edit: 09-DEC-1992 - - -\beginsection On the future of \TeX - -Working on Malayalam-\TeX, I met with more and more limitations of -\TeX, which needed ad-hoc solutions, that will not win an elegance -price. It made me dream of a future \TeX-like system, that would -incorporate all scripts in a more elegant way. Several people have -made suggestions on the future of \TeX, but most of them, again, -focussed on the Western languages. I think a transistion to the -emerging 16-bit Unicode (ISO 10646) standard will be the most natural -next step. - -\TeX\ was orignally designed for two `scripts', English and -Mathematics, and it does a very good job of typesetting both of them, -but one gets in problems when one tries to typeset another script with -it, for example Malayalam, or one of the various other scripts in use -for writing the spoken languages of the world, or to name the most -difficult of all, typesetting music. A future-\TeX\ should be build up -in some modular manner, so that other scripts can be added more -easily. - -Apart from being a typesetting system, \TeX\ is a fullfledged -programming language, but a horrible ackward one. As Frank Mittelbach, -suggested, it would be nice to replace it with a more conventional -one, although his suggestion to use lisp fills me with new horrors. I -think a more modern functional language like miranda would be a much -candidate. A functional language with some very basic functions needed -for typesetting would be a good kernel in my eyes. All logic needed -for typesetting a script could then be coded in the language itself, -instead of being hardwired into the system. - -Adding a new script would then be as easy as designing a font for the -script (A difficult enough task in itself) and writing the logic for -composing the script from a character-stream, which then could be -loaded into the system. - -An anochronism that has annoyed me more and more when I started making -several variants and sizes of my font is the use of bitmaps, with took -up more and more space on my harddisk. - -I would propose to join the powers of \TeX\ and \MF into one program, -that use the speak the same language, so that one can have direct -access to character-programs, to create the letter in the size and -style wanted at the a certain moment. - - -\bye |