Hi, at the risk of sounding rude or impatient: I'd love to know when new releases of luatex and ConTeXt mkiv can be expected. The latest luatex trunk has some problems (no ligatures, hyphenation flaky) and doesn't work with some of my fonts. Latest ConTeXt beta only works with trunk of luatex. Hans mentioned some fundamental changes in luatex, so I was just wondering. Thanks! Thomas
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Hi,
at the risk of sounding rude or impatient: I'd love to know when new releases of luatex and ConTeXt mkiv can be expected. The latest luatex trunk has some problems (no ligatures, hyphenation flaky) and doesn't work with some of my fonts. Latest ConTeXt beta only works with trunk of luatex. Hans mentioned some fundamental changes in luatex, so I was just wondering.
later this week there will be a new beta 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 10:49:44 am Hans Hagen wrote:
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Hi,
at the risk of sounding rude or impatient: I'd love to know when new releases of luatex and ConTeXt mkiv can be expected. The latest luatex trunk has some problems (no ligatures, hyphenation flaky) and doesn't work with some of my fonts. Latest ConTeXt beta only works with trunk of luatex. Hans mentioned some fundamental changes in luatex, so I was just wondering.
later this week there will be a new beta
Hans
What will a luatex based Context do for us that the current stable Context doesn't? -- John Culleton Precision Typesetting Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com
John Culleton wrote:
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 10:49:44 am Hans Hagen wrote:
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Hi,
at the risk of sounding rude or impatient: I'd love to know when new releases of luatex and ConTeXt mkiv can be expected. The latest luatex trunk has some problems (no ligatures, hyphenation flaky) and doesn't work with some of my fonts. Latest ConTeXt beta only works with trunk of luatex. Hans mentioned some fundamental changes in luatex, so I was just wondering. later this week there will be a new beta
Hans
What will a luatex based Context do for us that the current stable Context doesn't?
open type to start with, robustly grouped features, better and more robust spacing some day soon, more efficient and flexible xml, a new sectioning implementation, instant metapost processing (next year), and much more; eventually fundamental new features will only be written for luatex and pdftex (traditional tex) will be frozen. 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Thursday 25 October 2007 12:10:24 pm Hans Hagen wrote:
John Culleton wrote:
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 10:49:44 am Hans Hagen wrote:
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Hi,
at the risk of sounding rude or impatient: I'd love to know when new releases of luatex and ConTeXt mkiv can be expected. The latest luatex trunk has some problems (no ligatures, hyphenation flaky) and doesn't work with some of my fonts. Latest ConTeXt beta only works with trunk of luatex. Hans mentioned some fundamental changes in luatex, so I was just wondering.
later this week there will be a new beta
Hans
What will a luatex based Context do for us that the current stable Context doesn't?
open type to start with, robustly grouped features, better and more robust spacing some day soon, more efficient and flexible xml, a new sectioning implementation, instant metapost processing (next year), and much more; eventually fundamental new features will only be written for luatex and pdftex (traditional tex) will be frozen.
Hans
In my further exploration I came across another product, toally unrelated, dealing with spreadsheets. with the name of luatex. Is the name luatex a trademark? Lua is apparently. See: www.luatex.com -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog/ And my must-read (free) short list: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
In my further exploration I came across another product, toally unrelated, dealing with spreadsheets. with the name of luatex.
Yes, this was mentioned at the ConTeXt meeting last spring. It's a bit frustrating, sure, but ... Interestingly enough, this other luatex is to be parsed Lua / t / eX because the last two letters stand for Excel. And the normative spelling is LuateX with an uppercase X :-)
Is the name luatex a trademark?
Not that I know of. I don't think there would be any benefit to it, though. Recall that the name TEX itself---all uppercase---was a trademark since a couple of years by the time TeX was created. Who remembers this typesetting system by the Honeywell company today? Arthur
2007/10/25, Arthur Reutenauer
Not that I know of. I don't think there would be any benefit to it, though. Recall that the name TEX itself---all uppercase---was a trademark since a couple of years by the time TeX was created. Who remembers this typesetting system by the Honeywell company today?
Which is why "TeX" was never a real TM, just a "claimed" TM (according to bnb, who should know). Still luatex.com should have a pointer to luatex.org :-) Best Martin
Still luatex.com should have a pointer to luatex.org :-) I think it's better don't mixed things. For example: Latex Allergy Support Group http://www.lasg.co.uk
Wikipedia can always help. -- luigi
Hi, For my particular case: 1. embed u3d models within a pdf without piping to an external script to compute the view (see http://www.nibua-r.org/ConTeXt/devel/new3dartwork/), 2. the ability to use lua script leads to potential interaction with MySQL (it could be great for me but I need to verify it's possible). ... Cheers John Culleton a écrit :
What will a luatex based Context do for us that the current stable Context doesn't?
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