TeX Live 2008: LuaTeX?

TeX Live 2008: LuaTeX?

[Tobias Burnus]

Hi all,

does anyone know whether LuaTeX will be part of TeX Live 2008?

If I browse the SVN correctly, it currently contains a 1 year old
ConTeXt, checked in by Taco, and no LuaTeX.

It would be great if at least an up-to-date ConTeXt and possible LuaTeX
could be included. (Esp. since several Linux distributions have their
TeX based on TeX Live and are reluctant to create extra packages.)

Tobias
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Re: TeX Live 2008: LuaTeX?

[Hans Hagen]

Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> does anyone know whether LuaTeX will be part of TeX Live 2008?
> 
> If I browse the SVN correctly, it currently contains a 1 year old
> ConTeXt, checked in by Taco, and no LuaTeX.

it will be there (that is, a beta version)

Hans

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Re: TeX Live 2008: LuaTeX?

[Taco Hoekwater]

Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> does anyone know whether LuaTeX will be part of TeX Live 2008?
> 
> If I browse the SVN correctly, it currently contains a 1 year old
> ConTeXt, checked in by Taco, and no LuaTeX.

Context on texlive is updated once a year. It is a somewhat elaborate
process because texlive wants some stuff removed from the distribution
and quite some other stuff has to be relocated. I prefer not to do
that except when it is absolutely necessary.

The next texlive will normally have the latest stable context from
the week before the code freeze.

There definately be a luatex executable included as well, but it will
be more for the benefit of having texlua as a scripting engine, than
for proper typesetting.

Best wishes,
Taco
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Re: TeX Live 2008: LuaTeX?

[Tobias Burnus]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Context on texlive is updated once a year. It is a somewhat elaborate
> process because texlive wants some stuff removed from the distribution
> and quite some other stuff has to be relocated. I prefer not to do
> that except when it is absolutely necessary.
>   
As long as the update does not miss the deadline I am fine with having
one update per year. Thanks!

> There definately be a luatex executable included as well, but it will
> be more for the benefit of having texlua as a scripting engine, than
> for proper typesetting.
>   
Why? Because TeXLive is setup such that ConTeXt still uses pdfetex and
because luatex is beta -- or because some files are missing?

Tobias
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Re: TeX Live 2008: LuaTeX?

[Hans Hagen]

Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> Context on texlive is updated once a year. It is a somewhat elaborate
>> process because texlive wants some stuff removed from the distribution
>> and quite some other stuff has to be relocated. I prefer not to do
>> that except when it is absolutely necessary.
>>   
> As long as the update does not miss the deadline I am fine with having
> one update per year. Thanks!

the tex live folks are always very considerate with our last minute 
fixes and such, don't worry

>> There definately be a luatex executable included as well, but it will
>> be more for the benefit of having texlua as a scripting engine, than
>> for proper typesetting.
>>   
> Why? Because TeXLive is setup such that ConTeXt still uses pdfetex and
> because luatex is beta -- or because some files are missing?

good question .. at some point we will change from pdftex to luatex as 
default, maybe eurotex 2009 is a good moment

Hans

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