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PassiveTeX derives from and builds on:
- typehtml, a LaTeX package by David Carlisle, used to
typeset HTML directly using LaTeX;
- jadetex, a package by Sebastian Rahtz that implements the
output of the Jade DSSSL processor's TeX backend;
- A UTF-8 handler by David Carlisle, in conjunction with the
catalogue of Unicode/TeX mappings built up for jadetex.
The system components, which probably will be rewritten separately, are:
- TeX macro library to parse XML input, deal with
attributes, entities, etc.;
- Set of macros instantiating the formatting object elements and
attributes;
- Macros to parse UTF-8 input;
- Macros to parse MathML elements;
- Macros to map Unicode to TeX font layouts.
Michel Goossens
1999-08-13