Re: [NTG-context] active strings in luatex?

2008-01-13 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> XeTeX always converts, say, c + combining caron into a ccaron whenever > one exists in the font Does it really? I had understood from the last discussion on the XeTeX list that it did not, with the example of capital alpha + combining breathing which was not set correctly. But maybe it's LaT

Re: [NTG-context] active strings in luatex?

2008-01-13 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> if i know the precise specs i can build it into the utf collapser I can work that out for you, but we need to think about how to treat all this consistently, in particular with respect to the questions Mojca raised: · Equivalent sequences need to be treated the same way (c + combining c

Re: [NTG-context] active strings in luatex?

2008-01-13 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:59:27 -0700, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> In luatex can I make a definition such that such that the string >>> >>> U004C U0303 (l ̃) >>> >>> is always treated as l with tilde above, taking into account italics >>> and >>> without using \~l (which does not work

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting underscore

2008-01-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: > Aditya Mahajan wrote: > >> :) This is how it is done in plain TeX, and both LaTeX and ConTeXt follow >> this. If you do not use maths at all, you can say >> >> \catcode`\_ = 11 > > or ... > > \nonknuthmode > > (there's also \donkunthmode -) Hey, somehow ne

Re: [NTG-context] active strings in luatex?

2008-01-13 Thread Hans Hagen
Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > Hello Idris, > > I didn't see any reply to this e-mail you sent two weeks ago, so I > wanted to give it a try: > >> In luatex can I make a definition such that such that the string >> >> U004C U0303 (l ̃) >> >> is always treated as l with tilde above, t

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting underscore

2008-01-13 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: > :) This is how it is done in plain TeX, and both LaTeX and ConTeXt follow > this. If you do not use maths at all, you can say > > \catcode`\_ = 11 or ... \nonknuthmode (there's also \donkunthmode -) -

[NTG-context] Feature Request: \startitemize[text]

2008-01-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Hans, I have always found the space at the beginning of each item in \startitemize[text] to be too large. Currently, this is hard coded to be \emwidth plus \intertwordstretch minus \interwordshrink (line 1132 of core-itm.tex with the comment "new per 2006/10/20"). I always end of copying the

Re: [NTG-context] active strings in luatex?

2008-01-13 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> Thanks for the reminder. We have been thinking about creating an > lpeg variant that operates on tokens and/or nodes instead of > simple data strings, but that will take quite a bit of work. That sure would be nice. > It would be possible to simplify the loop logic by storing 'v' in > a local

Re: [NTG-context] active strings in luatex?

2008-01-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
I only wanted to add a note: XeTeX always converts, say, c + combining caron into a ccaron whenever one exists in the font (and does that on a really low-level). If ccaron doesn't exist (or if there's no such comination in unicode), it simply requests both glyphs from the font (and only modern font

Re: [NTG-context] active strings in luatex?

2008-01-13 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > Hello Idris, > > I didn't see any reply to this e-mail you sent two weeks ago, so I > wanted to give it a try: > >> In luatex can I make a definition such that such that the string >> >> U004C U0303 (l ̃) >> >> is always treated as l with tilde above, t