Javier Bezos wrote:
Another question:
How can I read arbitrary TeX input? Or is this part still unfinished? Currently, LuaTeX only accepts UTF-8 input, right? But let's assume we have:
\arabic{<iso arabic text>}
that is kind of impossible, unless you hook lua code in \arabic or let \arabic insert info that then can be used while preprocesing the lines preprocessing (at all levels of tex) is under development; by the end of this year / begin next year i/o will be stable ; around eurotex open type fonts + manipulation of fonts will be available
ie, two input encodings in the same line. I don't still understand how encodings work.
luatex takes only utf, and if you want something else, one can recode each input line using a call back function to do the recoding (or use an external prog to preprocess the input), but mixed input encodings will demand adaption of the macro's used for (eg arab) pdftex 1.* will be the pdftex that deals with 8 bit input, pdftex 2.* will be the utf variant ; user visible tex code for version 2.0+ quite certainly will be different at the lower level Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------