From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Cc: Maurice Diamantini <Maurice.Diamantini@ensta.fr>
Subject: Re: ruby, Lua, Megapost, tcl, ...
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:16:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <432E73FB.4020102@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76C1E896-CA94-4908-85D4-ACAF693F941D@ensta.fr>
Hi Maurice,
Maurice Diamantini wrote:
>
> What about Lua, Adding one more dependency to ConTeXt make it
> more difficult to install and maintain.
> So what is the advantage of luo in conTeXt instead of ruby?
Lua will not be 'in context', but 'in pdftex': the lua library
will be integrated in the executable, as a true extension language
that can be used besides and interleaved with TeX's normal syntax.
Lua is probably the best language for this sort thing, because
its code is small and very easy to extend/embed.
On the user side of things, nothing will change compared to the
current 'update your pdftex release' stuff. Using LuaTeX will
eventually probably mean extra functionality, but the most likely
sort-term result is a gain in processing speed, because the in-line
scripting can reduce the number of needed TeX runs.
Greetings,
Taco
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-19 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-11 18:12 ruby Hans Hagen
2005-05-11 19:29 ` ruby Nikolai Weibull
2005-05-11 21:54 ` ruby Hans Hagen
2005-05-11 22:10 ` ruby Nikolai Weibull
2005-05-12 6:02 ` ruby luigi.scarso
2005-05-12 7:01 ` ruby Hans Hagen
2005-05-12 9:48 ` Fill pdf forms luigi.scarso
2005-09-19 6:25 ` ruby, Lua, Megapost, tcl, Maurice Diamantini
2005-09-19 7:53 ` Hans Hagen
2005-09-19 8:11 ` Hans Hagen
2005-09-19 8:22 ` luigi.scarso
2005-09-19 8:16 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
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