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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label ant</title>
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<h3>The ANT typesetting system</h3>
<p/>Achim Blumensath’s <a href="http://ant.berlios.de">ANT</a> project,
in contrast to <i>NTS</i>, 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’s markup language is immediately recognisable to the
(La)TeX user, but the scheme of implementing design in
ANT’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’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="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/ant.zip">systems/ant</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/ant.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/ant/">browse</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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