The Unified Typesetting API
Overview
The Unified Typesetting API (UTA) is an attempt to unify the typesetting process needed by every text processing application. Currently it provides a reference implementation in Java available under the Mozilla Public License 1.1.
Goals/Features
- line-breaking model similar to TeX's to allow global optimizing line-break algorithms.
- modular and extensible design to allow simple as well as high quality implementations
- support for new scripts can easily be added
- quality management component to retrieve information about the internals of a typesetter
- fully documented
- open source
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Source
UTA-M1-20040817-src.zip (814 KB)
Includes Javadoc API documentation and source code.
Documentation
UTA in three steps
Currently the additional documentation is only available in German.
Step 1: A quick overview
This is a short article (German) introducing the basic concepts without going into much detail (four pages). Keeping those in mind will help you to get in touch with the rest a lot faster.
Step 2: UTA in 20 minutes
If you think UTA could be something for you have a look at these slides (German). They provide a bit more information than the article above.
Step 3: The details
Still interested? Fine! :-) Read the rest, UTA M1 in detail (German)
Javadoc
UTA is fully documented through Javadoc comments in the source.
Further Reading
The link section contains a bunch of references to typesetting related applications and technologies. More to come.
License & Dependencies
The software is available under the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1. UTA uses the tri-license scheme to allow alternative relicensing under the LGPL as well as the GPL.
UTA contains a binary distribution of the JDigraph library, available under the BSD license.
Invitation
You're welcome to
- provide a reference list for your language
- implement Typesetters and LinebreakAlgorithms
- implement support for Scripts
- to write a GUI for the Quality Management package
- provide feedback
- integrate UTA in your application
- ...
News & History
29.11.2005 - Ok, after more than a year the thesis is now finally available. Just was too lazy and lost interest for a while (there was no feedback from FOP and ExTeX).
17.08.2004 - Finally released version M1 of UTA!
06.07.2004 - Added link section.
25.06.2004 - Changed versioning scheme. First thought to make a psychologic 1.0 release when I finish the thesis. But I think people think of a stable piece of software, when using a software package with version 1.0. Thus, not UTA 1.0 but UTA M1 will be available around 09/01/2004. The current release contains the inital idea of embedding levels, used to typeset bidirectional text.
26.05.2004 - Refactoring to allow easy change of graph library, default graph library is now JDigraph.
21.05.2004 - First public release.