On Thursday 25 October 2007 12:10:24 pm Hans Hagen wrote: > John Culleton wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 October 2007 10:49:44 am Hans Hagen wrote: > >> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> at the risk of sounding rude or impatient: I'd love to know when new > >>> releases of luatex and ConTeXt mkiv can be expected. The latest > >>> luatex trunk has some problems (no ligatures, hyphenation flaky) and > >>> doesn't work with some of my fonts. Latest ConTeXt beta only works > >>> with trunk of luatex. Hans mentioned some fundamental changes in > >>> luatex, so I was just wondering. > >> > >> later this week there will be a new beta > >> > >> Hans > > > > What will a luatex based Context do for us that the current stable > > Context doesn't? > > open type to start with, robustly grouped features, better and more > robust spacing some day soon, more efficient and flexible xml, a new > sectioning implementation, instant metapost processing (next year), and > much more; eventually fundamental new features will only be written for > luatex and pdftex (traditional tex) will be frozen. > > Hans
In my further exploration I came across another product, toally unrelated, dealing with spreadsheets. with the name of luatex. Is the name luatex a trademark? Lua is apparently. See: www.luatex.com -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog/ And my must-read (free) short list: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
