From: Graham Douglas <graham.douglas@readytext.co.uk>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: learning LuaTeX (was: Hans' presentation: using plain TEX (from TUG 2009) [apologies if OT])
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:40:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BB8F929.2050708@readytext.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62E67905-1A07-4932-8D20-D863E356A92D@gundla.ch>
Hello Patrick
who said...
>>Besides the gdb part, this is pretty much how I "learned" LuaTeX
>>(still on my path). I suggest you stay with plain, then add features
>>as you go along:
> * write your own font handler (see the bluewiki page) - LuaTeX
>supports many different kinds of fonts
>* write your own kpathsea module (and thus replace kpathsea)
>* do a nodelist traversal and find out about the different node types
>* create a nodelist and write it out to TeX (node.write(...))
>* use tex.linebreak() for creating a paragraph.
...
Good to know that I'm not the only one going down the "simple"
path. My plans are indeed along the lines you indicate. I have the
utmost admiration and respect for the work that has gone into ConTeXt, a
great piece of work. For now, I just need to get back to the "very
basics" and a minimal installation of LuaTeX with plain seems to do that
nicely, for now.
>> If you understand german or use google translate, have a look at
>> http://www.luatex.de
Sadly, I do not read German, a real pity as there are some interesting
bits of code on there. Google Translate, here I come.... :-)
Warm regards and thanks again for your time to reply.
Cheers!
Graham
___________________________________________________________________________________
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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-04 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-03 17:51 Hans' presentation: using plain TEX (from TUG 2009) [apologies if OT] Graham Douglas
2010-04-03 18:17 ` Hans Hagen
2010-04-03 18:56 ` Graham Douglas
2010-04-03 19:10 ` learning LuaTeX (was: Hans' presentation: using plain TEX (from TUG 2009) [apologies if OT]) Patrick Gundlach
2010-04-04 20:40 ` Graham Douglas [this message]
2010-04-03 19:23 ` Hans' presentation: using plain TEX (from TUG 2009) [apologies if OT] Hans Hagen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4BB8F929.2050708@readytext.co.uk \
--to=graham.douglas@readytext.co.uk \
--cc=ntg-context@ntg.nl \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).