All true. Also, the way indexes, table of contents, bibliographies and cross references work in LaTeX are unholy, fragile hacks. Foot- and endnotes could use some TLC. And on 2011-era hardware we really should have some approximation of globally optimal page breaking.
Ugh, and fonts and character sets. Do you still have to put in magic incantations like
to get working hyphenation with wacky characters such as æ, ø, and å?
LuaTeX does seem to be experimenting with some improvements in these areas though.
About when I stopped paying attention to TeX and LaTeX many years ago (2002-ish?), there was some effort under way to rewrite all of TeX in Java. Did that go anywhere?
> About when I stopped paying attention to TeX and LaTeX many years ago (2002-ish?), there was some effort under way to rewrite all of TeX in Java. Did that go anywhere?
Ugh, and fonts and character sets. Do you still have to put in magic incantations like
to get working hyphenation with wacky characters such as æ, ø, and å?LuaTeX does seem to be experimenting with some improvements in these areas though.
About when I stopped paying attention to TeX and LaTeX many years ago (2002-ish?), there was some effort under way to rewrite all of TeX in Java. Did that go anywhere?