dev-context September 2019

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Language settings / French / quotation marks
by Tomas Hala 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

Hi all, greetings from BachoTeX. With Jean-Michel, we found out that there is the unsuitable setting for French nested quotation marks in lang-def.mkiv (TL 2018): \c!leftquote=\leftguillemot, \c!rightquote=\rightguillemot, After discussion (also with Damian) the better and most frequently used setting should be the following: \c!leftquote=\upperleftdoublesixquote, \c!rightquote=\upperrightdoubleninequote, %%%%%% \installlanguage [\s!fr] [\c!spacing=\v!packed, \c!leftsentence=\emdash, \c!rightsentence=\emdash, \c!leftsubsentence=\emdash, \c!rightsubsentence=\emdash, \c!leftquote=\upperleftdoublesixquote, \c!rightquote=\upperrightdoubleninequote, \c!leftquotation=\leftguillemot, \c!rightquotation=\rightguillemot, \c!date={\v!day:mnem,\v!space,\v!month,\v!space,\v!year}] %%%%%% Would somebody check it and change it in newer versions? The best, Tomáš

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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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Typo in generic fontloader code for SVG
by Marcel Fabian Krüger 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

Hi, in font-ocl.lua, inkscape is called to convert SVG table entries to PDF. This also has a "poor mans variant for generic" around line 464 which is probably supposed to call io.popen, but calls io.open instead. Of course this breaks the conversion and leads to the creation of a weird file. (See https://github.com/latex3/luaotfload/issues/96 for details) Maybe this can be fixed to use `io.popen`? There is also a harder to fix issue: Currently the code tries to do the SVG to PDF conversion when caching the font. Especially when shell-escape is disabled, this fails. Now the problem is that in this case rerunning the commands with shell-escape enabled doesn't help because the (empty) cached entries are used. Could you add some logic to try to recreate the cache if the existing PDF cache for a font is empty? Best regards, Marcel

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