Congratulations to the whole team and thank you very much for this fine piece of work ! Fabrice 2016-09-27 20:37 GMT+02:00 luigi scarso : > Version 1.0.0 > > After some ten years of development and testing, today we have released > LuaTeX 1.0.0! Instead of staying below one and ending up with versions > like 0.99.1234, we decided that the moment is there to show the TeX > audience that LuaTeX is stable enough to loose its beta status. Although > functionality has evolved and sometimes been replaced, we have been using > LuaTeX in production right from the start. Of course there are bugs > and for sure we will fix them. > > Our main objective is to provide a variant of TeX that permits user > extensions without the need to adapt the inner workings. We did add a few > things here and there but they mostly relate to opening up the inner parts > and/or the wish to influence some hard coded behaviour. Via Lua we managed > to support modern functionality without bloating the code or adding more > and more dependencies on foreign code. In the process a stable and flexible > MetaPost library became part of the engine. > > The functionality as present now will stay. We might open up some more > parts, we will stepwise clean up the code base while staying as close as > possible to the Knuthian original, we will try to document bits and pieces. > We might also experiment a bit with better isolation of the backend, and > simplify some internals. For that we might use the experimental version > but if we divert too much we may need to give that another name. > > We want to thank all those who have tested the betas and helped to make > LuaTeX better. > > Hans Hagen > Hartmut Henkel > Taco Hoekwater > Luigi Scarso > _______________________________________________ > dev-luatex mailing list > dev-luatex-wvrSQK3plZs@public.gmane.org > https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-luatex > -- Fabrice Popineau ----------------------------- SUPELEC Département Informatique 3, rue Joliot Curie 91192 Gif/Yvette Cedex Tel direct : +33 (0) 169851950 Standard : +33 (0) 169851212 ------------------------------