Hi, In addition to previous mails about the mplib project we now have funding for the programming part of the mplib project (budgetted 12KEURO) - dante : 6K - tug : 1.5K - tug india : 1K - ntg : 2K - cstug : 1K - gust: will fund a sub-project (metatype1 completion) TUG indicated that next year there could be additional funding but it looks like .5K is enough then, which means that the project funcing is secured. This project is especially nice because it permits us to have a tight luatex/mp pair. LuaTeX (opened up, configurable, tunable pdftex), TeXGyre (8 open type fonts, finaly with math etc), and MPLib (integrated graphical engine) help us boost tex into the future and without funding the programming and font conversion effort, i fear it would have taken many more years. It also means that some of you will have to do some pretty hefty testing of both machineries at the end of the year since context mkiv will be used as testbed. It may be clear that projects like this put quite a financial burden on user groups (there is already substantial continuous funding of texgyre by the mentioned user groups) and luatex is also sponsored (by oriental tex project as well as tug). Projects like this put a dent in the financial reserves of lugs. So ... if you're not yet a member of a local user group or tug ... consider joining since it's the user groups that keep the good work done ... Soon there will also be the option to support specific projects (tug project page). 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------