Maurice Diamantini wrote:
What about Lua, Adding one more dependency to ConTeXt make it
more difficult to install and maintain.
So what is the advantage of luo in conTeXt instead of ruby?
perl, python, ruby are 'huge', and distributing them with tex is a problem; lua is 'made for embedding' and adds less that 100k to the binary: lean and mean; i love ruby, but it's a big machinery.
Anyway, once we have lua in place, there will also be an api to tex's internals; when that is done, interfacing to ruby should be no problem. Maybe our next project will then be a
.tex (dot tex)
framework -)
Hans
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