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<h3>The ANT typesetting system</h3>
<p/>Achim Blumensath&#8217;s <a href="http://ant.berlios.de">ANT</a> project
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.
<p/>ANT&#8217;s markup language is immediately recognisable to the
(La)TeX user, but the scheme of implementing design in
ANT&#8217;s own implementation language (presently
<i>OCaml</i>) 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&#8217;s user interface: those that
derive from the design language being the same as the markup language.
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<dt><tt><i>ANT</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/ant.zip">systems/ant</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/ant/">browse the directory</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ant">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ant</a>
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