Re: [Dev-luatex] Modifying the LuaTeX Engine

Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:47:15 -0700, وفا خلیقی، Vafa Khalighi wrote:

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We should have a sample complex bidirectional text which contain everything in it (boxes, LTR and RTL texts, poems, colors, diagrams, footnotes and ...) and then compare the produced outputs.

Of course

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Please also note that I am using LaTeX not context.

As Hartmut points out, our tests at the end of the day need to be done with primitives alone.

it depends what you test; primitive behaviour or typesetting; you can only show real typeset text when you use some kind of high level wrapper (load fonts, deal with language aspects); tex itself is just machinery; it's like a car: we can compare wheels and engines but it's the car that has to bring you from a to b ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------