Re: Ugly in ascii was: RE: Re: Introducing Paul Burgess...

En réponse à Joe Fatula <fatula3@...>:

>
> Oh cool!  How do you make it do that?  Is there a backwards-space
> character?
Backwards-space character?! It doesn't need this poor man's stuff!!! ;)))

> That'd make a lot of font stuff really easy!
>
What TeX does is that it actually doesn't care what the actual appearance of a
character is. TeX works with boxes, and that's all it knows about. And it's not
difficult to move boxes around in strange ways (like Teoh showed) and this
independently from the actual shape of the glyph in (or out of, because you
needn't have the glyph in the box ;)) ) the box. In a sense, TeX is somewhat
like printing with lead types, without the limitation that a glyph has to be on
the lead type, or that lead types are limited in their movements ;)))) .

Christophe.

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