On 8/28/2024 10:57 AM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote:
On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 8:17 AM Jethro Djan <jthryeb...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Not sure what you mean by a core ConTeXt developer. I think, as with anything,
you get better at it by using it extensively. I would focus on a use case of
interest and take advantage of ConTeXt’s unmatched extensibility to automate
much of it as possible. Then you ask for help when you get stuck.
If you want to contribute to ConTeXt, maybe start by having a look at the
source and try to understand what’s going on (should be accessible to you since
you are a C developer). If you identify a bug, or want to propose a feature, I
am sure the community will support you however it can.
Jethro
I want to contribute to ConTeXt. I think that the steps for me should be:
Just curious: is there something that you miss.
1. Learn TeX
2. Learn LuaMetaTeX
Makes sense.
and then I can approach the C code. It won't make any sense if I just
start reading the LuaMetaTeX code.
Development of LuaMetaTeX (the engine) is mostly finished. We now
entered the stage where we conduct experiment with the more difficult
aspects (often unsolvable due to constraints). For that one needs to be
quite a bit experienced in tex and the way context approaches things.
As an example, project like updating math took many man-years and
intense testing, discussion and experimenting (so also quite some long
term commitment). In a similar fashion (and related) we now are playing
with the par and pagebuilder where user input and testing is required.
Things like that get discussed at meetings and personal cummunication.
The source code is under rather stict dev regime. We don't want to break
compatibility, all has to fit into the user interface, performance might
not be impacted significantly. We don't have an official dev team but
everone knows what the de-facto team is (last week those that had time
and were within reasonable traveling distance met at the context
meeting) and it's also a kind of friends and fun thing where everyone
brings in competence and inspiration. At such meetings we also set the
objectives for the next year.
That said, the usual way to come up with something that a user needs is
to use a mix of lua, tex and metapost and wrap that in a module. That
way the core is not crippled. Also, no all has to go into the engine but
is done in Lua.
Hans
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