From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37048 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: luatex Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:04:29 -0400 Organization: Able Indexers and Typestters Message-ID: <200710251504.29566.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <95068DEB-BDCE-4E85-87E2-BAE84E8BC2DC@uni-bonn.de> <200710251155.40240.john@wexfordpress.com> <4720BFF0.7080508@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193339268 9754 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2007 19:07:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:07:48 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Oct 25 21:07:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Il83Q-0007O9-Vs for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:07:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C72BD1FA6F; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:07:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29708-03; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:07:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B601FA4C; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:07:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 006191FA46 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:07:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31099-01-3 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:07:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from dpmailmta02.doteasy.com (dpmailmta02-15.doteasy.com [65.61.218.35]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17FB1FA45 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:07:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from typebye.com (unverified [192.168.101.49]) by dpmailmta02.doteasy.com (DEO) with ESMTP id 110225082-1814644 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:24:56 -0700 Original-Received: from c-76-21-134-36.hsd1.md.comcast.net [76.21.134.36] by typebye.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A95B4DB0092; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:07:07 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 In-Reply-To: <4720BFF0.7080508@wxs.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 0, First 11, in=12191, out=0, spam=0 ip=192.168.101.49 X-Originating-IP: 192.168.101.49 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:37048 Archived-At: 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 Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog/ And my must-read (free) short list: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________