Hans Hagen wrote:
Hi,
Currently most mails on the list about mkiv and luatex concern installation and fonts. This is ok since quite some code is related to that. The next couple of months other (sub)systems will be activated (or discovered by users since quite some stuff is already there).
- reading from other media: reading from zip files is possible, reading from e.g. http also if you have curl installed
- color support: mkiv will use attributes; this works already on my machine; other features (outline) and such will follow this route
- spacing, vertical as well as horizontal (inter character spacing, french punctuation), it's there but needs integration
- indexing: is already using lua, needs to be tested and we need tables for languages
- numbering lines etc: work in progress
- verbatim: new pretty printers will show up (i expect users to step in once we have the api ready)
- synchronization of text streams, multiple text streams etc ... work in progress
- sectioning and list handling, needs some rework for mkii too
- debugging and error handling: there (try \showdebuginfo \page or maybe \overloaderror \crap); we need a way to refresh browser windows automatically
- runtime feature toggling and font extensions: work in progress
- etc etc
maybe we should set up a wiki page where users can make a wishlist for fundamental features cq. exploring features under construction
Hans
How about the support for Chinese ? Will it be enhanced or just remains the same with ConTeXt ? And can mkiv produce pdf files in which the Chinese characters can be selected and copied to other place ? Thanks.