Re: Partly OT: some luatex questions

[Ulrike Fischer <news2@nililand.de>]

Am Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:11:45 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen:


>>> In all cases (also if I try dvi-output) the lines glue together. The
>>> attachment text-lua is the pdf of the latex try.
> 
> you can make a plain format operating in the same 'space' as context with
> 
>    luatools --make plain

I tried plain only for testing purposes. My goal is to be able to use
LaTeX. Also I don't have a "context space": As non-Miktex-files I use
currently only the executables luatex, mktexlsr (and kpswhich) and a
texmf.cnf-file. 


> eventually i will make a plain variant (probably a bit more more plain 
> than plain) with basic open type support (for other formats you might 
> need to add --compile to the make call)

If you mean a complete plainTeX-format: I at least don't need it much
;-) 

But what would be really fine were extracts of the context code: E.g. a
bundle of self contained lua-code and tex-code that leds to an extended
\font command (or a \font command with extended syntax similar to xetex)
with opentype/ttf-support. If such a primitive were present it would be
probably quite easy to write the LaTeX support e.g. by adapting
fontspec. Or a bundle which can be used to convert other input encodings
to utf8. Or a bundle of the code which sets catcodes and lccode etc. 

 


-- 
Ulrike Fischer 

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