Martin Schröder wrote:
When LuaTeX started I also toyed with the idea and had a look at JavaScript interpreters - they were much larger.
Large enough to have any significant impact on a modern machine, which one might reasonably expect to have 4Gb of RAM ? Size mattered when Don wrote TeX; these days it is far far far less of an issue.
And JS isn't designed for embedding
Yet it is very successfully embedded in (e.g.,) Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
