Re: Appreciation / Financial support

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2012-05-30 um 23:04 schrieb David Kastrup:

> Henning Hraban Ramm <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Some lunatics ;-) spent a lot of effort re-implementing TeX in Java,
> > that was called "NTS" (new typsetting system);
>
> I would not call Karel Skoupy a lunatic.

There’s a smiley. The LuaTeX team called itself lunatics jokingly.  
(lua = moon ...)

> > they stopped after implementing TeX compatibility (alias "OTS" = old
> > ts. system). I heard it was sluggish and ugly, but the team found the
> > last bugs in TeX
> Uh what?

AFAIR, it was the NTS team that found the last official bug in  
original TeX, involving some dotted line stuff. I blurrily remember a  
talk on that event at some DANTE meeting.
But maybe it was yourself? Couldn’t find it on the internets.
(Didn’t knew you was involved with TeX so deeply before I researched  
that just now; never saw you on TeX-D-L, but you seem to prefer Usenet.)

> > and immediately started the development of LuaTeX, that’s still in
> > development but already a big success.
>
> Uh what?  LuaTeX was started by Taco Hoekwater (and Hans Hagen) who  
> was
> neither involved with NTS nor with the Java version known as exTeX  
> that
> is still under development.

See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Typesetting_System

Maybe Taco wasn’t involved with NTS, but Hans was. (And since at least  
the ConTeXt devs are very close, I can’t imagine that Taco didn’t  
participate in NTS at all.)

I don’t claim accuracy in all details. ;-)
It doesn’t really matter who did what when. I should write less and  
debug more.

Greetlings, Hraban