2012/8/1 Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org>: > Ha, I was wondering how long it would take for someone to notice :-) > > I just started porting Polyglossia to LuaTeX. I didn't have time to > do much yet, but I expect it's going to be a matter of days till all the > gloss files work. For the moment, all the languages relying on XeTeX's > inter-character token mechanism will fail, but I know how to implement > it in LuaTeX. It has been discussed several times already and I don't > expect there will be major problems; although of course it will be > experimental at first. > Whenever anything is available for testing, I can try some Czech and Slovak texts.
> What's important to understand, though, is that this does not address > the underlying issues: LuaTeX still lacks a full OpenType shaping > engine, so that won't do anything for Indic scripts, scripts from > South-East Asia, Old Korean, nor other "complex" writing systems. > Arabic should work fine, but I'm not even sure about Syriac, for > example. > How about Urdu? It will be difficult for me but I can try to run some tests. > As for the discussion at hand, I have no intention to participate in > it -- although I'm afraid I'm going to be dragged into it. This kind of > talk is one of the most demotivating phenomena in open source > development, or in any volunteer community, for that matter. Having to > go over hundreds and hundreds of emails in a couple of days, few of > which seem to focus on concrete issues (when they're not unmitigated > drivel), just drains any person's enthusiasm and energy -- not to > mention time. As Simon Spiegel asked what the reason was for the > seemingly little progress in the XeTeX world in the past couple of > years, I can answer for my part: this is it. This kind of endless > threads on mailing-lists is the main organic reason why I don't invest > more time in development, as far as I'm concerned. And I'm sure this is > the case for other core developers too. > > Arthur > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
