From: John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: luatex
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:04:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710251504.29566.john@wexfordpress.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4720BFF0.7080508@wxs.nl>
On Thursday 25 October 2007 12:10:24 pm Hans Hagen wrote:
> John Culleton wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 October 2007 10:49:44 am Hans Hagen wrote:
> >> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> at the risk of sounding rude or impatient: I'd love to know when new
> >>> releases of luatex and ConTeXt mkiv can be expected. The latest
> >>> luatex trunk has some problems (no ligatures, hyphenation flaky) and
> >>> doesn't work with some of my fonts. Latest ConTeXt beta only works
> >>> with trunk of luatex. Hans mentioned some fundamental changes in
> >>> luatex, so I was just wondering.
> >>
> >> later this week there will be a new beta
> >>
> >> Hans
> >
> > What will a luatex based Context do for us that the current stable
> > Context doesn't?
>
> open type to start with, robustly grouped features, better and more
> robust spacing some day soon, more efficient and flexible xml, a new
> sectioning implementation, instant metapost processing (next year), and
> much more; eventually fundamental new features will only be written for
> luatex and pdftex (traditional tex) will be frozen.
>
> Hans
In my further exploration I came across another product, toally unrelated,
dealing with spreadsheets. with the name of luatex. Is the name luatex a
trademark? Lua is apparently.
See:
www.luatex.com
--
John Culleton
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-23 12:33 luatex Thomas A. Schmitz
2007-10-23 14:49 ` luatex Hans Hagen
2007-10-25 15:55 ` luatex John Culleton
2007-10-25 16:10 ` luatex Hans Hagen
2007-10-25 19:04 ` John Culleton [this message]
2007-10-25 19:21 ` luatex Arthur Reutenauer
2007-10-26 11:01 ` luatex Martin Schröder
2007-10-26 11:21 ` luatex Mojca Miklavec
2007-10-26 12:23 ` luatex luigi scarso
2007-10-26 17:14 ` luatex Renaud Aubin
2017-10-30 16:26 luatex Hans Hagen
2017-10-30 17:57 ` luatex massi
2017-10-30 20:05 ` luatex Henri
2018-08-28 16:06 luatex Hans Hagen
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