On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 10:42 PM David Carlisle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there any chance that luatex could change here to be compatible > with other systems? > > we are discussing it, but there is not an easy solution. As is now in luatex, \gluestretchorder is consistent (integer always greater than zero and ordered ), something else breaks consistency and backward compatibility (this is a quite old macro). > If it is not possible to change the default behaviour would it be > possible to have a flag settable in the format so that fi fil fill > fill were (say) -1,1,2,3 not 1,2,3,4? > both for \gluestretchorder and tex.setglue ? > At format level one can patch it, the point is at engine level. -- luigi
