Re: new mkiv beta

[Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net>]

Hans Hagen schrieb:
> 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.
>
this is good news. :)

the bad news is, that figure libraries are currently broken in mkiv 
(beta from 29.2). i'll make a minimal example.

peter

> 
> Hans
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