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-% 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