Re: ConTeXt meeting Lua tutorials

[John Haltiwanger <john.haltiwanger@gmail.com>]

How about including Lua library loading in the tutorial? The
discussion of converting from pre-formats like Markdown seems like a
good starting point for demonstrating how to load Lua libraries and
integrate procedural programming into a ConTeXt workflow.

Hopefully I will be there, still rounding up the cash but it looks
like I might make it.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 25-8-2010 10:05, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>>
>> Am 24.08.2010 um 20:37 schrieb Oliver Buerschaper:
>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Today I started preparations for my activities at the ConTeXt meeting.
>>>>
>>>> There are two small lua tutorials in the program, and I am looking
>>>> for input on both. There is one that is supposed to be a general
>>>> beginner's introduction, and one specifically about fonts.
>>>>
>>>> For both, I am looking for input on what subjects I should cover?
>>>>
>>>> Since both tutorials will end up as articles/wiki pages, it makes
>>>> sense to ask everybody on the list for input (but requests by actual
>>>> attendees will be scored considerably higher).
>>>
>>> Perhaps some example to modify a font at runtime? I don't know whether
>>> that's possible at all, but if yes, it would be great to see how one could
>>> modify kerning tables etc. Often a font needs to be groomed but its license
>>> places some restrictions on modifying the file itself...
>>
>>
>> +1
>
> This is somewhat tricky. Actually I had a mechanism for that but I discarded
> the code. However there will be a feature like that some day as it needs a
> rather tight integration in the core of context's font handling. (btw, there
> is a feature for type 1 fonts that adds 'missing' kerns based on shape
> codes).
>
> Hans
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