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Luatex 1.08.0 announcement
by luigi scarso 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

============================================================== LuaTeX 1.08 2018-08-28 ============================================================== (1) This release is a prelude to 1.10, the next stable iteration of LuaTeX after version 1.00. (2) Lua 5.3 is now considered to be default and we might use 5.4 in version 1.10. There are no real functional changed expected. You still need to rename the binary for 5.3! (3) Binary mode is no longer available in MPlib but it is still available in stand alone MetaPost. This simplifies compilation and reduces dependencies. (4) The dependency on Poppler for pdf image inclusion has been removed. We now use a small dedicated library written by Pawel Jakowski. We no longer need c++ compilers. We're in the process of making it behave well on all platforms. It has been tested on intel platforms. (5) We know that there can be some (alignment) issues with the arm platform but these are looked into. Therefore, later this year we will release 1.09. Version 1.10 is planned for TeXlive. We hope that ffi works ok on intel and arm platforms at that point. (6) There have been some extensions to the Lua libraries and some callbacks have been added. Also, a few new primitives have been introduced. The documentation mentions the stable extensions. (7) There are the usual bug fixes and cleanups but there have been no real fundamental changes in the API. The LuaTeX team

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(fwd) Bug#480725: mptopdf does not work with beginfig(-1)
by Norbert Preining 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

forwarded 480725 dev-context(a)ntg.nl thanks Dear Hans, dear Taco, on the Debian side we got the attached bug report together with a patch for mptopdf.pl. Can you comment on it, or consider it for inclusion? Thanks and all the best Norbert Please leave 480725(a)bugs.debian.org on the Cc list, thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining(a)logic.at> Vienna University of Technology Debian Developer <preining(a)debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DARENTH (n.) Measure = 0.0000176 mg. Defined as that amount of margarine capable of covering one hundred slices of bread to the depth of one molecule. This is the legal maximum allowed in sandwich bars in Greater London. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

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spac-hor.mkiv: Missing delimiter for \quad
by Wolfgang Schuster 27 Dec '18

27 Dec '18

Hi Hans, the definitions for \quad, \qquad and \enskip need a \relax at the end. - \unexpanded\def\enskip{\hskip.5\emwidth} - \unexpanded\def\quad {\hskip \emwidth} - \unexpanded\def\qquad {\hskip 2\emwidth} + \unexpanded\def\enskip{\hskip.5\emwidth\relax} + \unexpanded\def\quad {\hskip \emwidth\relax} + \unexpanded\def\qquad {\hskip 2\emwidth\relax} Wolfgang

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interface file typos and a question
by Taco Hoekwater 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

Hi, Whenever I have a few off minutes, I am working on an extension to the wiki. The idea is to have an extra extension tag <syntax>…</syntax> which fetches the html syntax of a ConTeXt command from a wiki database table. More later on that. While working on that though, I found a few small issues with the xml interface files. Here are a few typos (character swaps): <cd:command ategory="fonts" clevel="style" file="font-ini.mkiv" name="switchstyleonly”> <cd:command evel="document" file="buff-ini.mkiv" generated="yes" lcategory="buffer" name="buffer" type="environment" variant="instance”> <cd:command ategory="fonts" clevel="style" file="font-fea.mkvi" name="subtractfeature" variant="direct"> And these two are the only “system conditional”s, which probably means they should just be “system”: <cd:command category="verbatim" file="buff-ver.mkiv" level="system conditional" name="doifelsetypingfile"> <cd:command category="verbatim" file="buff-ver.mkiv" level="system conditional" name="doiftypingfileelse"> A few other commands have no level attribute at all (maybe intentional): <cd:command category="xml" file="strc-tag.mkiv" name="element" type="environment”> <cd:command category="whitespace" file="spac-ver.mkiv" name="unpacked" type="environment”/> <cd:command category="whitespace" file="spac-ver.mkiv" name="locallinecorrection" type="environment”> <cd:command category="columns" file="page-mul.mkiv" name="columnspan" type="environment”> <cd:command category="colors" file="colo-ini.mkiv" name="definepalet"> <cd:command category="colors" file="colo-ini.mkiv" name="transparent" type="environment"> Besides those, I also have an actual question: Is there an intended difference between <cd:sequence> <cd:instance value="framed"/> </cd:sequence> and <cd:sequence> <cd:variable value="highlight"/> </cd:sequence> (cd:instance versus cd:variable)? Best wishes, Taco

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