TeX, XML, and Digital Typography: International Conference on TeX, XML, and Digital Typography, Held Jointly with the 25th Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group, TUG 2004, Xanthi, Greece, August 30 - September 3, 2004. Proceedings

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by  Christos K. K. Loverdos

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InternationalConferenceonTeX,XML,andDigitalTypography
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Xanthi, Greece,August 30 - September 3, 2004
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Preface
This volume contains the papers that were accepted for presentation at the In-
ternationalConferenceonTEX,XML,andDigitalTypography,jointlyheldwith
the 25thAnnualMeetingoftheTEXUsersGroupinXanthi,Greeceinthesum-
merof2004.Theterm“DigitalTypography”referstothepreparationofprinted
matter using only electronic computers and electronic printing devices, such as
laser-jetprinters.Thedocumentpreparationprocessinvolvesmainlytheuseofa
digital typesetting system as well as data representation technologies. TEX and
its offspring are beyond doubt the most successful current digital typesetters,
while XML is the standard for text-based data representationfor both business
and scientific activities.
Allpapersappearinginthisvolumewerefullyrefereedbythemembersofthe
program committee. The papers were carefully selected to reflect the research
work that is being done in the field of digital typography using TEX and/or its
offspring.
Theproblemsforwhichcomprehensivesolutionshavebeenproposedinclude
proper multilingual document preparation and XML document processing and
generation. The proposedsolutions deal not simply with typesetting issues, but
also related issues in document preparation, such as the manipulation of com-
plex bibliographic databases,and automatic conversionof text expressedin one
grammaticalsystemtoamorerecentone(asfortheGreeklanguage,converting
between monotonic Greek and polytonic Greek).
The conference is being graciously hosted by the Democritus University of
Thrace in Xanthi and by the Greek TEX Friends. We wish to thank Basil K.
PapadopoulosandGeorgiaPapadopoulouoftheDemocritusUniversityfortheir
generous help and support in the preparation of the conference. Also special
thanks go to Stratos Doumanis, GeorgiosMaridakis,andDimitrios Filippou for
theirinvaluablehelp.LastbutnotleastwethanktheManipulicityofXanthifor
their help and support.
Xanthi, Greece Apostolos Syropoulos
July 2004 Karl Berry
Yannis Haralambous
Baden Hughes
Steven Peter
John Plaice
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Table of Contents
Digital Typography in the New Millennium:
Flexible Documents by a Flexible Engine ............................. 1
Christos K.K. Loverdos and Apostolos Syropoulos
Moving Ω to an Object-Oriented Platform ............................ 17
John Plaice, Yannis Haralambous, Paul Swoboda, and G´abor Bella
Basque: A Case Study in Generalizing LATEX Language Support ......... 27
Jagoba Arias P´erez, Jesu´s La´zaro, and Juan M. Aguirregabiria
μoνo2πoλυ: Java-BasedConversionof Monotonic to Polytonic Greek ..... 34
Johannis Likos
Using LATEX to Typeset a Mar¯at.h¯ı-English Dictionary .................. 55
Manasi Athale and Rahul Athale
Hyphenation Patterns for Ancient and Modern Greek .................. 59
Dimitrios Filippou
Typesetting the Deseret Alphabet with LATEX and METAFONT .......... 68
Kenneth R. Beesley
FEATPOST and a Review of 3D METAPOST Packages.................. 112
Luis Nobre Gon¸calves
Interactive Editing of MathML Markup Using TEX Syntax .............. 125
Luca Padovani
Typesetting CJK Languages with Ω .................................. 139
Jin-Hwan Cho and Haruhiko Okumura
Dynamic Arabic Mathematical Fonts ................................. 149
Mostafa Banouni, Mohamed Elyaakoubi, and Azzeddine Lazrek
Arabic Mathematical e-Documents ................................... 158
Mustapha Eddahibi, Azzeddine Lazrek, and Khalid Sami
Migrating to XML: The Case of the GUST Bulletin Archive............. 169
Wl(cid:2)odzimierz Bzyl and Tomasz Przechlewski
Animations in pdfTEX-Generated PDF ............................... 179
Jan Holeˇcek and Petr Sojka
iTEXMac: An Integrated TEX Environment for Mac OS X............... 192
J´eroˆme Laurens
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MlBibTEX: Beyond LATEX........................................... 203
Jean-Michel Hufflen
Managing TEX Resources with XML Topic Maps....................... 216
Tomasz Przechlewski
S¸¨aferTEX: Source Code Esthetics for Automated Typesetting ............ 229
Frank-Rene Schaefer
Creating Type 1 Fonts from METAFONT Sources....................... 240
Karel P´ıˇska
Beyond Glyphs, Advanced Typographic Features of Fonts............... 257
George Williams
Author Index.................................................... 265
Digital Typography in the New Millennium:
Flexible Documents by a Flexible Engine
Christos K.K. Loverdos1 and Apostolos Syropoulos2
1 Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, Universityof Athens
TYPA Buildings, Panepistimiopolis
GR-157 84 Athens,Greece
[email protected]
http://www.di.uoa.gr/∼loverdos
2 Greek TEX FriendsGroup
366, 28th October Str.
GR-671 00 Xanthi,Greece
[email protected]
http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/∼apostolo
Abstract. The TEX family of electronic typesetters contains the pri-
marytypesettingtoolsforthepreparationofdemandingdocuments,and
havebeeninuseformanyyears.However,oureraischaracterized,among
others,byUnicode,XMLandtheintroductionofinteractivedocuments.
In addition, the Open Source movement, which is breaking new ground
in theareas of project support and development,enables masses of pro-
grammers towork simultaneously.Asadirect consequence,it isreason-
abletodemandtheincorporationofcertainfacilitiestoahighlymodular
implementationofaTEX-likesystem.Facilitiessuchastheabilitytoex-
tend the engine using common scripting languages (e.g., Perl, Python,
Ruby, etc.) will help in reaching a greater level of overall architectural
modularity.Obviously,inordertoachievesuchagoal,itismandatoryto
attract a greater programming audience and leverage the Open Source
programming community. We argue that the successful TEX-successor
should be built around a microkernel/exokernel architecture. Thus, ser-
vicessuchasclient-sidescripting,fontselectionanduse,outputroutines
andthedesignandimplementationofformatscanbeprogrammedasex-
tension modules. In orderto leverage thehugeamount of existing code,
and keep document source compatibility, the existing programming in-
terface is demonstrated to be just another service/module.
1 Introduction
The firststeps towardscomputertypesetting tookplace inthe 1950s,butitwas
not until Donald E. Knuth introduced TEX in 1978 [16] that true quality was
brought to software-based typesetting. The history of TEX is well-known and
the interested reader is referred to [16] for more details.
Today, the original TEX is a closed project in the sense that its creator has
decided to freeze its development. As a direct consequence no other programs
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are allowed to be called TEX. In addition, the freely available source code of
the system was a major step on the road towards the formation of the Open
Source movement, which, in turn, borrowed ideas and practices from the Unix
world. Furthemore, the development of TEX and its companion system, META-
FONT, had made obvious the need for properly documented programs. This, in
turn, initiated Knuth’s creation of the literate programming program develop-
ment methodology. This methodology advances the idea that the programcode
and documentation should be intermixed and developed simultaneously.
Thesourcecode ofTEXandMETAFONT beingfreelyavailablehashadenor-
mous consequences. Anyone can not only inspect the source code, but also ex-
periment freely with it. Combined with TEX’s (primitive, we should note, but
quite effective for the time) ability to extend itself, this led to such success sto-
ries as LATEX and its enormous supporting codebase, in the form of packages.
As a direct consequence of the fact that the source code is frozen, stability was
brought forth. Note that this was exactly the intention Knuth had when devel-
opinghis systems.Acommonreferred-tocore,unchangedinthe passingoftime
and almost free of bugs, offered a “secure” environment to produce with and
even experiment with.
However,in aneverchangingworld,especially in the fast-pacedfield of com-
puterscience,almostanythingmusteventuallybesurpassed.Anditistheemerg-
ingneedsofeacherathatdictatepossiblefuturedirections.TEXhasundoubtedly
served its purpose well. Its Turing-completeness has been a most powerful as-
set/weaponinthebattlesforandofevolution.Yet,thedesiredabstractionlevel,
neededtocopewithincreasingcomplexity,hasnotbeenreached.Unfortunately,
with TEX being bound to a fixed core, it cannot be reached.
Furthermore, the now widely accepted user-unfriendliness of TEX as a lan-
guage poses another obstacle to TEX’s evolution. It has created the myth of
thosefew,veryspecialandquiteextraordinary“creatures”1abletodecryptand
produce code fragments such as the following2:
\def\s@vig{{\EO@m=\EO@n
\divide\EO@n by20 \relax
\ifnum\EO@n>0\s@vig\fi
\EO@k=\EO@n\relax
\multiply\EO@k by-20\relax
\advance\EO@m by \EO@k\relax
\global\advance\EO@l by \@ne
\expandafter\xdef\csname EO@d\@roman{\EO@l}\endcsname{%
\ifnum\EO@m=0\noexpand\noexpand\EOzero
\else\expandafter\noexpand
\expandafter\csname EO\@roman{\EO@m}\endcsname\fi}
\expandafter\@rightappend
\csname EO@d\@roman{\EO@l}\endcsname
\t@\epi@lmecDigits}}
Of course, to be fair, programmers in several languages (C and Perl among
others) are often accused of producing ununderstandable code and the well-
known obfuscated code contests just prove it. On the other hand, with the ad-
1 ThesecondauthormayberegardedasoneofGandalf’sfamuli,whilethefirstauthor
is just a Hobbit, wishing to havebeen an Elf.
2 Taken from thedocumentation of the epiolmec package by thesecond author.