Re: new mkiv beta

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:59:06 +0100
> Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I uploaded a beta release. The biggest change is that image inclusion in 
>> mkiv has changed. Currently it's still some mix of tex and lua code, and 
>> the backend code is somewhat messy (and not complete yet) but it's a 
>> first step towards lua doing things. This will only work with a e recent 
>> luatex.
>>
>> The advantage is that file searching in lua is more robust (and when 
>> many search paths are used, also faster). Image conversion has been 
>> moved to lua too, but currently still uses pdftops (also for svg) but 
>> that may move to lua as well. Figure libraries are supported by default 
>> now.
> 
> I testes just a few short examples and noticed the following things:
> 
> 
> 1. XeTeX has two problems with the greep pattern files (lang-agr.pat).
> 
> (c:/w32tex/share/texmf-local/tex/context/patterns/lang-agr.pat
> ! Nonletter.
> l.1486 ß╝Ç2╬¢1¤ë╬┤¤àß┐¢
> 
> ?
> ! Nonletter.
> l.2327 ß╝É3¤â2╬┐¤àß┐¢
> 
> ?

in syst-xtx add:

% patch needed for greek

\setcclcucx 1FFD 1FFD 1FFD

messy ... it's a modifier, not a letter

Hans

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