On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Arun Dev
Hi,
You can increase the popularity of ConTeXt by eliminating the need to install Perl and Ruby.
MKIV does not dependent on Perl and Ruby. I think Hans has plan to convert the MKII scripts to Lua language. Anyway, I highly respect the ConTeXt and LuaTeX's work. But if Taco and Hans can : - use a proper regexp library (like lrexlib?), not the silly lpeg - make font loading faster (by massive fontforge change or replace it with ft2+libotf. we need more efficient solution esp for big fonts) - support TeX line-break-like page break - support arbitrary text-flow maybe via mplib (example: The ultimate (?) float problem + How could a typesetting system be today? on mailing list ) - make processing conditional-aware (see "two newbie questions about conditional processing" on the mailing list) - fix the bug of focus=standard - more powerful multi columns (maybe not through gird typesetting?) - full support of xslt:) Things might be a lot better...
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