ivo welch wrote:
hi hans---just curious. do you plan conTeXt to use just one computer language in the future?
indeed. most useful script are already converted to lua (mtx-* files that run on top of mtxrun); the advantage is that mtxrun has a built in filedatabase handler (so we don't use kpsewhich at all) and is pretty fast the only bit that is still depending on ruby is the index sorting that is built in texexec (used by pdftex and xetex) but i could not motivate myself to rewrite that bit the luatx workflow only uses lua and uses luatex itself as lua interpreter so there are no dependencies 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------