[Dev-luatex] A few newbie questions
David Kastrup
dak at gnu.org
Thu Jan 29 11:20:46 CET 2009
Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> writes:
> * Additional hyphenations (in typewriter text).
> These were added because luatex is willing to hyphenate words that
> start with a non-letter: luatex just starts the word at the first
> thing that is a letter. An argument can be made for maintaining
> compatibility, but currenty we do not intent to make that change
> as the new behaviour is desired much more often. (the same can be
> said for hyphenating the first word in a paragraph, but that case
> never arises in the texbook)
Do you have an example where the new behavior would be desired?
> * Extra or slightly different ligatures.
> These are caused by stuff like the self{}ful example above, and this
> incompatibity will definately remain. TeX's exact behaviour was an
> implementation artifact that is pretty hard to mimic, and any attempt
> to do so would lead to extremely ugly code.
Ugly code and ugly/inconsistent results.
--
David Kastrup
More information about the dev-luatex
mailing list