On 4/1/2019 5:36 PM, Joseph Wright wrote:
On 01/04/2019 15:55, Hans Hagen wrote:
Hi all,
After more than a decade of mkiv and luatex it's time to move on to a
new stage. After all, nowadays a ten-year old program is considered to
be really old, especially for those who consider a manual typeset
three years ago as an indication of lack of progress. Therefore:
welcome to lua(meta)tex 2.00 and context lmtx, the follow up on luatex
and mkiv, if you dare. It has many deep-down changes but aims to be a
simple evolution.
The average user will probably not notice many differences but
nevertheless, when you are in for something new, you can give it a try:
http://www.pragma-ade.nl/install.htm
Of course you should keep your current installation too. We're sure
that there will be issues so when you run into unexpected surprises,
you can blame us (and fall-back on the current Context beta and
luatex). Of course with the proper mwe's (tex, metapost, lua, or a
combination of these) we will try to solve them all, we have been
testing. In due time more about this project will be revealed.
Hans Hagen & Alan Braslau
Hi Hans,
Thanks for the link to the code. A quick install suggests that a 'hello
world' is working nicely from ConTeXt. However, if I try what you might
expect from me
luametatex --ini latex.ltx
things go a bit wrong:
This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.00.0 (INITEX)
! error: (system): missing find_write_file callback
(I also notice there is no plain-like format for testing, or at least
that just "luametatex" yields an error.)
i might cook up something plain but it has a very low priority, after
all, plain works with luatex
Clearly things work for ConTeXt, so there must be some early Lua magic
or similar required. Any thoughts? (I don't get a .log or any other
output.)
it's a stripped down "lean and mean" engine so it's very unlikely to
work with plain and latex or other macro packages out of the box
a manual will come available around the context meeting, articles will
be published the coming months and reveal a bit more
(all this involved over half a year of development and exploration,
which itself is documented which will also surface around the ctx
meeting or when i feel the need)
Hans
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