> Indeed, I didn't find a Perl library that would support locales
> without them being present on the system. However, all of
>
> https://perldoc.perl.org/Unicode::Collate (Perl)
> https://github.com/jtauber/pyuca (Python)
> https://docs.rs/unicode-collation/0.0.1/unicode_collation/ (Rust)
>
>
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 12:03:34PM +0100, Luca Fascione wrote:
> I must say I don't understand this discussion.
I agree with most of what Luca said.
I'm sure whatever the maintenance burden is, Werner is likely to bear it
himself. Supporting newer versions of tools may even help (cf. texi2html
an
I must say I don't understand this discussion.
If we as the developers of Lilypond recommend users move onto
lilypond-next, shouldn't we also keep current with versions of software
around us?
After all, we upgrade platforms, compilers, python interpreters, guile
interpreters and all that, what exa
>> There are a bunch of LaTeX packages that only work with a specific
>> TeX engine, and which need special input code for that. For
>> example, `fontspec` (with its excellent OpenType support) only
>> works with XeTeX and luatex. Or think of 'lyluatex', which
>> obviously needs luatex.
>
> Ye
>> There are a bunch of LaTeX packages that only work with a specific
>> TeX engine, and which need special input code for that. For
>> example, `fontspec` (with its excellent OpenType support) only
>> works with XeTeX and luatex. Or think of 'lyluatex', which
>> obviously needs luatex.
>
> Ye
>> in LaTeX, there are *really* differences depending on the engine.
>
> Oh, really? Color me surprised. Are there tools other than build
> systems that read those environment variables? And users set them
> globally, in spite of the incompatibilities that exist between the
> TeX engines?
There
Le 20/11/2022 à 15:40, Werner LEMBERG a écrit :
I'm too tired to defend superior typographical output
again and again since it is obviously only me who sees a benefit in
it.
It's not that I don't see any benefit at all in superior
typographical output. However, the benefits are tiny in my
vie
> On the other hand, most contributors (except those who want to
> fine-tune the typography, i.e. basically you, Werner) will want the
> doc build to be as fast as possible, so I'm not fond of using it by
> default.
OK. I will adapt my patch accordingly and remove luatex from the
`configure` scr
