The N T S project was created under the zgis of D m during a meeting held at Hamburg in 1992; its brief was to investigate the possibility of perpetuating all that is best in T@ whilst being free from the constraints which TEX'S author, Prof. Knuth, has placed on its evolution. The group is now investigating both conservative and radical evolutionary paths for TEX-derived typesetting systems, t...

It is shown how sorting -numbers and lexicographic can be done completely within TEX. Lexicographic sorting allows words with ligatures and diacritical marks. As applications I selected sorting of address labels, and sorting and compressing i ndex . tex, Knuth's index reminders file. It is claimed that a set can be sorted within TEX once the ordering of the set is defined and encoded in a compa...

In this paper Bibulus will be introduced. Bibulus is a very flexible, multilingual system for formatting bibliographies in several formats, including LTEX. Bibliographies are stored in XML, but Bibulus includes a program to convert old BTEX databases. Bibulus is being developed as open-source software at http://savannah.nongnu.org/ projects/bibulus/. This paper will first summarise the curren...