Re: luatex feature question/request

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl>]

Dnia Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 09:50:55AM +0200, Hans Hagen napisał(a):
> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I was just wondering, whether something like this is possible in luatex
> > - and if not, if it might be implemented;).  I'd like to be able to
> > transform somehow the input right *before* TeX sees it.  What I mean is
> > e.g. a transformation using regexps.  Application I have in mind is as
> > follows: in Polish, there are a few prepositions which are one-letter
> > words; it's a bad custom to leave them hanging at the end of a line.
> > Such an option could automatically put ties (~) instead of spaces after
> > them - a feature sometimes requested by Polish TeX users.
> 
> input parsing is not needed here, it's easier to to do this on the node 
> list; remind me in a few months (it's rather trivial to implmenent since 
> the infrastructure is already in mkiv)

Thanks a lot;).  I've set up a reminder in 3 months' time;).

> 
> Hans

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