2012/8/6 Ulrike Fischer <ne...@nililand.de>: > Am Sat, 4 Aug 2012 09:38:44 +0200 schrieb Paul Isambert: > > >>> But there are also political issues: LuaTeX is developed by a >>> team focusing on ConTeXt. LaTeX users will always be neglected, >>> at least that is the feeling I have (Taco is very kind and >>> helpful but he is paid for a specific task, and LaTeX is not >>> part of it). > >> I thought somebody would answer to that but nobody did, so (sorry to add >> to this already too long thread, all the more as I won't even mention >> XeTeX): > >> Two members of the ``core'' LuaTeX team (Taco and Hans) are indeed two >> main ConTeXt developers (and even original author, in Hans's case), but >> I don't think you can say LuaTeX development focuses on ConTeXt (plus >> Hartmut, the third member, is a LaTeX user, as far as I know). I'd >> rather say that at most LuaTeX development may be driven by the needs >> of ConTeXt developers, but that doesn't mean it benefits only to ConTeXt; >> also, given ConTeXt's high standards, I think it's only for the best. >> And the specific task Taco is paid for does not include LaTeX, but it >> does not include ConTeXt either. > > Well if you look only at the actual binary then yes your are right: > it is not focused on context. But the handling of fonts is a core > feature of a typesetting system. No user of a typesetting system > would consider it to be complete if it can't handle standard fonts. > So even if in luatex the font loader (including all the code needed > to generate caches) is in external lua-files, it should nevertheless > be considered to be part of "the luatex binary". It shouldn't > delegate font handling to the formats. > The fontspec package is already available in lualatex. > > -- > Ulrike Fischer > http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
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