Jonathan Sauer wrote:
Are there any ideas on how to extend TeX's syntax? More than nine parameters (if that is useful)? Parameter matching using regular expressions or Lua patterns? Optional parameters without having to use \futurelet (expandable, no fixed catcodes)?
the main short term objectives are (1) opening up the existing functionality (2) opentype (mostly done) (3) unicode (done) since luatex is supposed to replace pdftex, we don't mess around too much with the basics extending the syntax is not a priority; in principle one can write another input language, map the parsed result onto primitives or lua functions etc etc maybe a few etex like thingies will show up after all, when you want a different syntax you can use lua to parse your input (e.g. preprocess the file and then pipe it into the existing machinery) if we start looking into that direction, we need a pretty stable luatex i.e. 1.0+ and that will take a few years 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------