> > TeX systems are essentially self-contained: on a Windows system with TeX > Live or MiKTeX installed one can nowadays assume Lua as well as TeX but > nothing else. Moreover, I'm thinking specifically of a use case linked > to the process of document preparation itself. >
To the best of my knowledge Perl and Python are available for Windows. People can download and install the languages. I do not think that Microsoft would have any objection to this. So instead of augmenting the language with unnecessary primitives, ask people to install a serious scripting language. For years people in this forum are talking about microtypography and other things that are missing from XeTeX so I think it would be far more important to fully support these additional features. Of course, I am not the one that decides what goes in and what goes out but I just say my opinion. A.S. ---------------------- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
