Re: new upload

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 5/26/2021 7:17 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 5/25/21 6:20 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> [...] but for those willing to check the alternative, in
>> page-ins.mkxl one can uncomment
>>
>>      % \insertmode\plustwo
> 
> Many thanks for the new upload, Hans.
> 
> I’m extremely interested in testing this.
> 
> How can we enable this feature in a permanent way?
> 
> I mean, how can we avoid that an update disables it?
Not ... because we define some inserts (e.g for footnotes) we need to 
decide what storage model to choose ... technically we can use the 
runtime 'experiment' feature but i expect to switch rather soon anyway.

When users who test it encounter no problems it's okay because the core 
mechanisms are the same ... read: we still have inserts as usual but a 
variant engine-metadata storage model permits future - more robust and 
predictable - extensions; it was one of the more long term pending 
things to do which i decided to do now.

fyi: As we transition to frozen mkiv i'm also removing some hybrid 
left-overs in lmtx (for instance, years ago the lmtx backend actually 
started out as an option in mkiv so that i could test the idea, so that 
resulted in some nasty code in order to deal with both cases ... but at 
some point I decided that mkiv should not go that dual route.

So, every time when I run into some "it's time to move on and clean this 
up" moment I also check my long term agenda and this insert stuff was 
one of those items: it permits me to remove some old obsolete code still 
present in lmtx (that I admit I often already forgot about).

Hans

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