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ANT
A TYPESETTING SYSTEM
“ant is not TEX.”
Achim BlumensathDecember 16, 2007
Contents
1. Invoking ant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32. e markup language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.
AL
– the ant language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.1. Lexical conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.2. Literals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.3. Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.4. Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.5. Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.6. Declarations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.7. Built in
AL
-commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104. Typesetting commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154.1. Program control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154.2. Page layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164.3. Galleys and paragraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194.4. Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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4.5. Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214.6. Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254.7. Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284.8. Colour and graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294.9. Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304.10. Macros and environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324.11. Counters and references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334.12. Parsing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354.13. Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364.14. Environment commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364.15. Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375. Overview over the source code . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385.1. e runtime library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385.2. e typesetting library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405.3. e layout engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405.4. e parser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425.5. e virtual machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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ant 0.8 1. Invoking ant
is a typesetting system inspired by TEX. Although TEX does a very good jobwhentypesettingmathematicalarticlesandbooks–thetaskithasbeendesignedfor – it can become very difficult, cumbersome, or even impossible to meet thetypographical requirements of texts outside this narrow scope. For instance, thecurrentdraofthenewoutputroutineforL
A
TEXconsistsofmorethan100pages.Unfortunately, it is also very difficult to extend the functionality of TEX since itssourcecodeisatotalmess.Evenaer20yearsthereareonlyversionswithminormodifications available.For these reasons I decided to rewrite from scratch aiming for a simple,clean, and modular design. In particular it is easily possible to replace parts of with other implementations, say, adding an parser, output routines for files, or a different page layout algorithm.ecurrentversionofimplementsallthemajorfeaturesofTEXbutalotof minor things are still missing. In addition, provides several improvementsover TEX:
a saner macro language (no catcodes);
a builtin high-level scripting language;
support;
support for various font formats including Type1, TrueType, and Open-Type;
partial support for advanced OpenType features;
support for colour and graphics;
simple page layout specifications;
river detection.
1. Invoking ant
translatesitsinputfileintoa-or-file.RudimentarysupportforPost-Script and output is also implemented. e program is invoked as
ant
[
options
]
input file
Currently, the following options are supported:
--help
prints a help message.
--format=
format
selects the output format. Supported are
dvi
,
xdvi
,
pdf
(default),
ps
, and
svg
. e latter two are only partially implemented.
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