Re: modules for TeX Live 2008

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:

>> Another side question: What is with
>> http://modules.contextgarden.net/nath ? Clicking the directory link. all
>> ConTeXt modules are shown, but I *cannot find* that module. I find two
>> files - but only if I click on the CTAN link.
>
> at some point aditya needs to look into nath an dgiv ehis opinion; the
> problem is that nath is rather low level hooked into latex's font
> system; it's impressive stuff but i have no idea if it's still
> maintained;

I had tried nath a long time back, but found that it did not work in some 
cases (if I remember correctly, there was some trouble with accents). I 
wrote to the list, and got a reply from Giuseppe that it was a known 
bugs. But, from what I understand, in general it works correctly. So, it 
should be included.

> also, at some point we will redo that kind of things
> (breaking across lines and so) in lua

I have some ideas that I will talk about in the context user metting.

Aditya

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