[linux-audio-user] Note typesetting for Linux

[Chris Pickett]

Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Friday 09 Jul 2004 8:08 pm, Chris Pickett wrote:
> 
>>Yes, of course, but the typesetting language _itself_ doesn't have
>>this, right?  I can also do [...] in TeX, but that doesn't make it
>>_programming_. 
> 
> 
> Bad example -- TeX is not a very efficient general-purpose language, 
> but it is certainly a true programming language.  Here for example 
> are implementations of Bresenham's straight line algorithm and Bezier 
> splines in TeX, which I wrote for fun about twelve years ago:
> 
>   http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/m/line-algorithms.tex

I had a feeling TeX could do that.  If people are doing the same kind of 
things to write music, then to me it's definitely programming.

> I don't think that has much bearing on the present discussion though!

Great.  Thanks man.  Way to prove my point! :P

Chris