last beta this year

* last beta this year
@ 2019-12-31 10:50 Hans Hagen
  2019-12-31 12:52 ` Floris van Manen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Hans Hagen @ 2019-12-31 10:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,

I uploaded the last beta for this years so we will leave all old bugs 
behind us. Here's a bit of agenda:

- mkiv will use luatex so as part of the upcoming tl code freeze that 
needs the usual testing;

- next year i suppose that lmtx will be used by the majority of users

- we need to (read mojca and i will do that when we're in the mood) 
adapt the garden infrastructure for installing lmtx; part of that is 
also the context repository

- we have to think about how to deal with the extra modules as part of 
that (basics are already there)

- idris, mohammad, wolfgang and i are trying to make right-to-left 
handling of layout related items more complete and consistent, expect 
more next year

- i expect to do some more luametafun stuff, maybe some cleanup of old 
code, maybe a bitmore split between old mkiv and new lmtx

- i also want to do some pending font trickery, probably lmtx only

- wolfgang (he doesn't know that yet) and i (and maybe some others) are 
going to think about some lightweight protection of core macros (using 
some new lmtx features) .. i'm curious to know if and how frequently 
users are bitten by accidental redefinitions

- aditya (he knows) has to pick up on some pending math issues so math 
will get better too

- thomas (he also knows as he needs it) and i are looking into some 
tricky layout things related to synchronizing content

- i want to see if the installation can be more automatic (as we 
basically need a real minimalistic copy-end-run approach in for instance 
texlive for lmtx)

- i need to move some pending stuff into all kind of manuals (but will 
probably forget about it unless i run into new cd's to keep me occupied 
while doing it)

- there will be a ctx meeting in czech (at the place we've been before)

- in addition, next year will see the wiki being improved, something 
Taco and Pavneet and others are / have been working on; feel free to 
contribute to that effort!

So, upto next year,

Hans

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