Le 12 mai 05 à 09:01, Hans Hagen a écrit :
luigi.scarso wrote:
A little off-topic: why ruby and not python ?
- i didn't like those tabs/indentation
- ruby's reminded me of modula which i used a (real) lot in the past
- ruby has a small footprint
- i just like it
Hans
I agree with the
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'
Maurice Diamantini wrote:
What about Lua, Adding one more dependency to ConTeXt make it
more difficult to install and maintain.
btw, it's not a dependency: lua will be 'always pesent in the binary'
and since we nowadays only have one binary ... also, my guess is that
adding it to aleph is
Hi Maurice,
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?
Lua will not be 'in context', but 'in pdftex': the lua library
will be integrated in the
Hans Hagen wrote:
btw, it's not a dependency: lua will be 'always pesent in the binary'
and since we nowadays only have one binary ... also, my guess is that
adding it to aleph is easy
ok, secret link: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/luatex.pdf
FANTASTIC!! It's what I want.
I
