Re: [NTG-context] active strings in luatex?

2008-01-13 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Arthur Reutenauer wrote: Hello Idris, I didn't see any reply to this e-mail you sent two weeks ago, so I wanted to give it a try: In luatex can I make a definition such that such that the string U004C U0303 (l ̃) is always treated as l with tilde above, taking into

Re: [NTG-context] active strings in luatex?

2008-01-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
I only wanted to add a note: XeTeX always converts, say, c + combining caron into a ccaron whenever one exists in the font (and does that on a really low-level). If ccaron doesn't exist (or if there's no such comination in unicode), it simply requests both glyphs from the font (and only modern

Re: [NTG-context] active strings in luatex?

2008-01-13 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Thanks for the reminder. We have been thinking about creating an lpeg variant that operates on tokens and/or nodes instead of simple data strings, but that will take quite a bit of work. That sure would be nice. It would be possible to simplify the loop logic by storing 'v' in a local

[NTG-context] Feature Request: \startitemize[text]

2008-01-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Hans, I have always found the space at the beginning of each item in \startitemize[text] to be too large. Currently, this is hard coded to be \emwidth plus \intertwordstretch minus \interwordshrink (line 1132 of core-itm.tex with the comment new per 2006/10/20). I always end of copying the

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting underscore

2008-01-13 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: :) This is how it is done in plain TeX, and both LaTeX and ConTeXt follow this. If you do not use maths at all, you can say \catcode`\_ = 11 or ... \nonknuthmode (there's also \donkunthmode -) -

Re: [NTG-context] active strings in luatex?

2008-01-13 Thread Hans Hagen
Arthur Reutenauer wrote: Hello Idris, I didn't see any reply to this e-mail you sent two weeks ago, so I wanted to give it a try: In luatex can I make a definition such that such that the string U004C U0303 (l ̃) is always treated as l with tilde above, taking into

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting underscore

2008-01-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: :) This is how it is done in plain TeX, and both LaTeX and ConTeXt follow this. If you do not use maths at all, you can say \catcode`\_ = 11 or ... \nonknuthmode (there's also \donkunthmode -) Hey, somehow never noticed

Re: [NTG-context] active strings in luatex?

2008-01-13 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:59:27 -0700, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In luatex can I make a definition such that such that the string U004C U0303 (l ̃) is always treated as l with tilde above, taking into account italics and without using \~l (which does not work in, eg, footnote)?

Re: [NTG-context] active strings in luatex?

2008-01-13 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
if i know the precise specs i can build it into the utf collapser I can work that out for you, but we need to think about how to treat all this consistently, in particular with respect to the questions Mojca raised: · Equivalent sequences need to be treated the same way (c + combining

Re: [NTG-context] active strings in luatex?

2008-01-13 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
XeTeX always converts, say, c + combining caron into a ccaron whenever one exists in the font Does it really? I had understood from the last discussion on the XeTeX list that it did not, with the example of capital alpha + combining breathing which was not set correctly. But maybe it's