Jill-Jênn VIE <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I think the choice is obvious.  Don't you?
> 
> Wanna be part of it! Lately I've been fighting with the question:
> “Should I try Lilypond?” but your idea is much more interesting.
> Don't know anything about Lua though.

lua's pretty simple (it was chosen, at least in part, because it's easy
to embed in other programs).  if you've programmed in any other
scripting language you'll probably have little difficulty with it.

> > PS  If you would like to try LuaTeX for yourself, and find the official
> >    documentation a little daunting, you may like to read the story at
> >    http://dip.sun.ac.za/~laurie/luatex
> 
> Does it support Unicode as well as XeTeX (I mean, as WELL)?

sure: unicode is its default character set.

there remain _some_ wrinkles, but it's pretty good already.  (target
date for the 1.0 release is some time in 2012, iirc.)

btw --

>>    http://dip.sun.ac.za/~laurie/luatex

doesn't let me download the .tex file of the primer.  it would be nice
to look at that.

robin

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