From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37046 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: luatex Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:10:24 +0200 Message-ID: <4720BFF0.7080508@wxs.nl> References: <95068DEB-BDCE-4E85-87E2-BAE84E8BC2DC@uni-bonn.de> <471E0A08.7020506@wxs.nl> <200710251155.40240.john@wexfordpress.com> 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 1193328923 3761 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2007 16:15:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:15:23 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Oct 25 18:15:23 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 1Il5MZ-0002jU-4t for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:15:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D45F21FB98; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:15:06 +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 24623-06; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:15:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E0E1FB7E; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:13:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2491FB7E for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:13:24 +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 24623-05 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:13:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4761FB14 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:10:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 118 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:10:42 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <200710251155.40240.john@wexfordpress.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 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:37046 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________