On 2/11/2020 5:18 PM, Floris van Manen wrote:
On 11-02-2020 17:00, Hans Hagen wrote:
- support for ecmascript for those who think thayt javascript is better than lua (of course only to find out at some point that it's not true in the perspective of context but it migh tmake a transition easier). For the impatient:
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/ecmascript-mkiv.pdf
to (further) promote the usage of lua, it might help if the examples given in the pdf documentation will also include the (better) lua version...
sure but actually it can be that users have (or find) javascript code someplace that can help them do something without conversion (and introducing errors) ... of course assuming proper ecmascript the interface in lmtx provides a way to pipe into tex (with catcode support) as well as access to files in the tex ecosystem (controlled) so it just provides the few interfaces needed on top of a basic engine conforming the 'standard' Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------