> Development of LuaMetaTeX (the engine) is mostly finished. We now > entered the stage where we conduct experiment with the more difficult > aspects (often unsolvable due to constraints). For that one needs to be > quite a bit experienced in tex and the way context approaches things. > > As an example, project like updating math took many man-years and > intense testing, discussion and experimenting (so also quite some long > term commitment). In a similar fashion (and related) we now are playing > with the par and pagebuilder where user input and testing is required. > Things like that get discussed at meetings and personal cummunication. > > The source code is under rather stict dev regime. We don't want to break > compatibility, all has to fit into the user interface, performance might > not be impacted significantly. We don't have an official dev team but > everone knows what the de-facto team is (last week those that had time > and were within reasonable traveling distance met at the context > meeting) and it's also a kind of friends and fun thing where everyone > brings in competence and inspiration. At such meetings we also set the > objectives for the next year. > > That said, the usual way to come up with something that a user needs is > to use a mix of lua, tex and metapost and wrap that in a module. That > way the core is not crippled. Also, no all has to go into the engine but > is done in Lua. > > Hans
So I guess I need to learn TeX, Metapost and Lua. I know a bit of these but will go a bit deeper. Once I have learned these I will try to help by updating the Wiki documentation. -- Respect, Shiv Shankar Dayal ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
