[Dev-luatex] REQ: Please tell comp.text.tex why LuaTeX chose embed rather than extend.
Jonathan Fine
jfine at pytex.org
Sun May 24 16:03:01 CEST 2009
Hello Hans
Thank you for your prompt reply.
>> One of the participants asked: "What was the rationale behind choosing
>> the embed route by the LuaTeX team?"
>
> the motives for doing ot the way we do has been discussed in articles
> and presentations several times the last couple of years so it makes no
> sense to repeat that again
I'm sorry, Hans, but I've not been able to find the resources you refer
to. I've done an internet search
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=embed+extend+luatex
and I've not found anything yet.
Please would you supply URLs explain why the LuaTeX team chose to embed
rather than extend.
> the reasons for choosing lua are (1) we like it, (2) it's small and
> stable, (3) it does not add updating, huge libraries and depencies mess
> to tex distributions, (4) it's fast, (5) it's made for this purpose
Ah, you may have misunderstood me. Perhaps I was not clear enough. My
question is not why did you choose Lua, but why did you choose to embed
rather than to extend.
[snip]
--
Jonathan
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