Re: [NTG-context] Suggestion

2009-06-19 Thread luigi scarso
Anyway, I highly respect the ConTeXt and LuaTeX's work. But if Taco and Hans can : - use a proper regexp library (like lrexlib?), not the silly lpeg PEG are not silly at all. PEG *include* regex, but not viceversa, and it seems to have the same power of CFG, so you can build a parser for

Re: [NTG-context] Suggestion

2009-06-19 Thread Yue Wang
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:29 PM, luigi scarsoluigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, I highly respect the ConTeXt and LuaTeX's work. But if Taco and Hans can : - use a proper regexp library (like lrexlib?), not the silly lpeg PEG are not silly at all. PEG *include* regex, but not viceversa,

Re: [NTG-context] Suggestion

2009-06-19 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Yue Wang yuleo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:29 PM, luigi scarsoluigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, I highly respect the ConTeXt and LuaTeX's work. But if Taco and Hans can : - use a proper regexp library (like lrexlib?), not the

Re: [NTG-context] math and palatino

2009-06-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Idris Samawi Hamid ? ? wrote: http://www.ctan.org/get/fonts/Asana-Math/Asana-Math.otf + This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.41.0-2009061016 I reported this to Taco so we'll see what he says... That version of Asana works for me with a small test file, using This is

Re: [NTG-context] On creating my own fonts

2009-06-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Maurí­cio wrote: I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. If possible, I would like to be able to write my own program to at least draw glyphs, even if I have to resort to other tools to describe hinting, kerning and ligatures. My current knowledge is this. I read

Re: [NTG-context] On creating my own fonts

2009-06-19 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote: Maurí­cio wrote: I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. If possible, I would like to be able to write my own program to at least draw glyphs, even if I have to resort to other tools to

Re: [NTG-context] Suggestion

2009-06-19 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
The key reason for this is, more people are familiar with regexp. so if you can build a 100% compatible regexp module on top of lpeg in ConTeXt, it will be ok, or even better... There *is* a regexp module on top of LPeg. It's written by Roberto Ierusalimschy, the Lua and LPeg author. Just

Re: [NTG-context] On creating my own fonts

2009-06-19 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 03:20, Maurí­cio wrote: I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. If possible, I would like to be able to write my own program to at least draw glyphs, even if I have to resort to other tools to describe hinting, kerning and ligatures. My current

Re: [NTG-context] Example of passing unexpanded text between \startfoo ... \stopfoo into Lua?

2009-06-19 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi Kevin, A colleague and I are experimenting with strategies to implement a literate programming module for ConTeXt, and we'd like to have something like Im not exactly sure what you're trying to achieve, but perhaps you could do this using a prettyprinter? A pretty printer gets passed each

Re: [NTG-context] On creating my own fonts

2009-06-19 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:43:44AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: 4.) Be prepared to invest a lot of time ... Tell me about it, I started three years ago and I'm nowhere close to my original goal :) Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font

Re: [NTG-context] On creating my own fonts

2009-06-19 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:20:43PM -0300, Maurí­cio wrote: I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. If possible, I would like to be able to write my own program to at least draw glyphs, even if I have to resort to other tools to describe hinting, kerning and ligatures. I

Re: [NTG-context] On creating my own fonts

2009-06-19 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Maurí­cio briqueabra...@yahoo.com wrote: I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. If possible, I would like to be able to write my own program to at least draw glyphs, even if I have to resort to other tools to describe hinting, kerning

[NTG-context] New modules

2009-06-19 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi all, to keep it short, I put a few new modules on the garden and my collection of typescripts too (Mojca added all of them to the minimals), the complete list is: • t-algorithmic • t-fixme • t-simplefonts • t-typescripts Regards, Wolfgang