Re: Partly OT: some luatex questions

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Ulrike Fischer wrote:

> But what would be really fine were extracts of the context code: E.g. a
> bundle of self contained lua-code and tex-code that leds to an extended
> \font command (or a \font command with extended syntax similar to xetex)
> with opentype/ttf-support. If such a primitive were present it would be
> probably quite easy to write the LaTeX support e.g. by adapting
> fontspec. Or a bundle which can be used to convert other input encodings
> to utf8. Or a bundle of the code which sets catcodes and lccode etc. 

wel, if there is some kind of plain mode, then using that other macro 
packages is possible too, but it has no high priority; first most of the 
font stuff needs to be in place, then i start working on a more layered 
context setup (so that one can use components for other purposes)

Hans

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