Re: A Modern Typesetting Language.

2022-05-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi John, > > Or at best, gives it through some clunky ‘treat it as a string’ > > mechanism. > > How is that clunky? Text is text. It's opaque, honest, and > universal. The foundation of the Unix Philosophy… you know this as > well as I do. ;-) It's an escape hatch to handle things not yet tho

Re: A Modern Typesetting Language. (Was: .TQ to replace .PD 0)

2022-05-25 Thread John Gardner
Hi Ralph, Or at best, gives it through some clunky ‘treat it as a string’ mechanism. > How is that clunky? Text is text. It's opaque, honest, and universal. The foundation of the Unix Philosophy… you know this as well as I do. ;-) One could look at shoehorning evermore complexity through to the