[Dev-luatex] beta 0.20.0 released

[Jonathan Sauer]

Hello,

> > - What is planned between 2008 and 2010?
> 
> well, we have a wish list, but hen we have enough lua callbacks we may

> not need to add much; eventually there will be a tex kernel (in c)
with 
> a c interface; currently global properties will become structures,
maybe 
> we will be abel to run multiple instances .. who knowns

What do you mean by the latter?

> > Well, as soon as I have figured out how to correctly load OpenType
> > fonts ... incidentally, that is an place the manual could use some
> > work: Section 4.12.2 explains how to get a metrics table from an
> > OpenType font -- but now, what this metrics table contains. That
> > makes it quite difficult to convert it to a tfm font table.
> 
> this is not for the manual, since there are many implementations 
> possible and the whole idea behind luatex is that we only provide 
> interfaces, no solutions;

Sure, but examples on how to use these interfaces can go a long way.
And IMO a documentation of the OpenType font metrics table is indeed
for the manual. Otherwise, how should one be able to create a solution?

> we have plans to write a luatex book (starting next year) that
> may contain example code

A book on dead trees? Considering the pace at which LuaTeX develops
(and most likely will continue to develop, considering above roadmap),
I wonder if this book will not either be in the stores too late or
out of date.

> so, for the moment, consider it an experiment, next year, consider it 
> reality and after that integration with macropackages will 
> follow (well, up to he macro package writers of course)

Who can only write code if they have the documentation.


> Hans

Jonathan