hi hans---just curious. do you plan conTeXt to use just one computer language in the future? /iaw
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 21:09, ivo welch wrote:
hi hans---just curious. do you plan conTeXt to use just one computer language in the future?
(even though I'm not Hans ...) No. At least TeX, lua and metapost will probably stay, so that already adds to three languages :) :) :) If talking about scripting (ruby, perl) ... in ideal world it should all end up being lua only (until the next language comes to the horizon), but there might not be enough motivation to rewrite *all* the existing scripts, so some of the older scripts (texfont etc.) will probably stay in ruby/perl for a while/forever unless somebody else rewrites them or unless Hans will need them. Mojca
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 21:09, ivo welch wrote:
hi hans---just curious. do you plan conTeXt to use just one computer language in the future?
(even though I'm not Hans ...)
No. At least TeX, lua and metapost will probably stay, so that already adds to three languages :) :) :)
If talking about scripting (ruby, perl) ... in ideal world it should all end up being lua only (until the next language comes to the horizon), but there might not be enough motivation to rewrite *all* the existing scripts, so some of the older scripts (texfont etc.) will probably stay in ruby/perl for a while/forever unless somebody else rewrites them or unless Hans will need them.
we'll see how many context+pdftex users are around in a few years from now; of course i'll have a few existing workflows that use pdftex (and probably for many years) but one seldom needs to generate fonts for that actually yesterday i had to update a pdftex based style and generate tfm's for an ttf font and of course the font was so bugged that i needed fontforge to turn it into a proper pfb file with adobe encoding; the original had a completely messed glyph names; interesting is that mkiv/luatex works ok with that font but of course the unicode vector in the pdf will be flaky as well 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
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