The ANT typesetting system
Achim Blumensath’s ANT project,
in contrast to NTS, aims
not to replicate TeX with a different implementation technique, but
rather to provide a replacement for TeX which uses TeX-like
typesetting algorithms in a very different programming environment.
ANT remains under development, but it is now approaching the
status of a usable typesetting system.
ANT’s markup language is immediately recognisable to the
(La)TeX user, but the scheme of implementing design in
ANT’s own implementation language (presently
OCaml) comes as a pleasant surprise to the jaded FAQ
writer. This architecture holds the promise of a system that avoids a
set of serious problems with TeX’s user interface: those that
derive from the design language being the same as the markup language.
- ANT
- systems/ant (gzipped tar, browse)
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