Redesigning Typesetting for the Digital Age: Multilingual Layout on Multiple Media

我们建议创建和开发一个新的字符级自动排版模型，比现有的方法更灵活。 这一模式将支持在纸张、计算机屏幕、纸质地图和在线地图等媒体上对所有现代和许多古代语言和文字进行高质量的排版，以用于常规和安全关键型应用。 这个建议的基本创新是使用了树结构的参数空间（Unix环境变量的泛化）和多遍排版方法（如编译器中使用的）。 这些创新技术将被整合到全世界使用的计算机软件中。

We propose to create and develop a new model for character-level automatic typesetting, much more flexible than existing approaches. This model will support quality typesetting of all of the modern - and many ancient - languages and scripts, on media such as paper, computer screen, paper maps and online maps, for regular and safety-critical applications. The fundamental innovations in this proposal are the use of a tree-structured parameter space (generalization of Unix environment variables) and a multiple-pass approach to typesetting (as used in compilers). These innovative techniques will be integrated into computer software used worldwide.