29 Jan
2009
29 Jan
'09
9:35 a.m.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:02:26PM +0800, Yue Wang wrote:
for LuaTeX. In ConTeXt world this is quite different, since Hans Hagen is a Lua+TeX+fontforge+MetaPost+whatever expert. So unless there exist several Hans Hagens in the LaTeX world, ordinary LaTeX users will not benefit from LuaTeX development.
That is why I believe that we should have some means to share must of the lower level Lua code across macro packages. For instance writing 2 or 3 OpenType layout modules is a waste of time, is it a big task of its own especially if you want to cover all scripts, there exists 3 free OpenType implementations and only one gets it almost right. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team