[Dev-luatex] lua in ocp's [was Very simple sample?]

[Javier Bezos]

Taco:

>> OK. What I was wondering was if the whole OCP mechanim
>> could be replaced by lua scripts. Since lua can be
> 
> On the todo list is an item about writing lua scripts
> to interpret OTP files directly, but that is at least
> a few months away.

And about applying lua scripts at the point where
OCPs are applied? Remember one of the goals of OCPs is
to apply transformations _after_ expansion, so that:

\def\charf{f}
\def\chari{i}
\charf\chari

could be properly handled as fi. This is very important
in "contextual" scripts like Arabic or Devanaghari.

BTW, I was even wondering if that would allow fixing the
\string and \char issues (I would say bugs) in the OCP
mechanism.

Javier