On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Patrick Gundlach <[email protected]> wrote: >> and why 256 is important for it ? > > good question. The bit field has only 4 bits, so 256 makes no sense for me. 5 bits, see luatexdir/tex/texnodes.h
> > > BTW: there seems to be a contradiction in the manual. P. 174 has the > following table: yes, it seems so. > bit meaning > 0 character > 1 glyph > 2 ligature > 3 ghost > 4 left > 5 right wrong > > > but page 144 states: > > bit0 1: char, 0: glyph > bit1 1: ligature 0: no ligature > bit2 1: ghost 0: no ghost > bit3, bit4: rightghost / leftghost right -- luigi
