Gour D. wrote: > Jürgen> Support is defitely on the agenda, though probably not for LyX > Jürgen> 2.0 (rather for 2.1 or later). As Günter wrote, the > Jürgen> implementation should not be too hard, since the difference to > Jürgen> XeTeX is not big. > > Huh..2.1 or later? It probably won't be so soon. :-(
It simply depends on the willingness and free time of some developer. Again, it's really not that hard. Just a matter of digging a bit into LuaTeX. But it's a file format change, that's why it cannot be done in 2.0.x. And for 2.0, the doors for new features begin to close. > Otoh, having modern font-handling is really a must today. > > Jürgen> A ConTeXt backend would be nice as well, but this is > Jürgen> significantly more work. > > ConTeXt backend does not sound as 'nice' but 'dreamland'!!! > > I'm not at all aware if LyX is abstracted so much so allow such a > thing without significant rewrite. It is. We already have backends for DocBook, plain text, and (in 2.0) XHTML next to LaTeX. Context would "just" mean yet another output method. Jürgen
