BIG successes of Lisp (was ...)

[Marc Battyani]

"Paul Rubin" <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid>

> I missed the earlier messages in this thread but Latex wasn't written
> in Lisp.  There were some half-baked attempts to lispify TeX, but
> afaik none went anywhere.

I'm currently working on a Common Lisp typesetting system based on cl-pdf.
One example of what it can already do is here:
http://www.fractalconcept.com/ex.pdf

For now I'm working on the layout and low level stuff. But it's a little bit
soon to think that it will go nowhere, as I hope a lot of people will add TeX
compatibility packages for it ;-)

BTW note that I'm not rewriting TeX. It's another design with other
priorities.

Marc