Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]> a écrit: > > Am Sat, 4 Aug 2012 09:38:44 +0200 schrieb Paul Isambert: > > > >> But there are also political issues: LuaTeX is developed by a > >> team focusing on ConTeXt. LaTeX users will always be neglected, > >> at least that is the feeling I have (Taco is very kind and > >> helpful but he is paid for a specific task, and LaTeX is not > >> part of it). > > > I thought somebody would answer to that but nobody did, so (sorry to add > > to this already too long thread, all the more as I won't even mention > > XeTeX): > > > Two members of the ``core'' LuaTeX team (Taco and Hans) are indeed two > > main ConTeXt developers (and even original author, in Hans's case), but > > I don't think you can say LuaTeX development focuses on ConTeXt (plus > > Hartmut, the third member, is a LaTeX user, as far as I know). I'd > > rather say that at most LuaTeX development may be driven by the needs > > of ConTeXt developers, but that doesn't mean it benefits only to ConTeXt; > > also, given ConTeXt's high standards, I think it's only for the best. > > And the specific task Taco is paid for does not include LaTeX, but it > > does not include ConTeXt either. > > Well if you look only at the actual binary then yes your are right: > it is not focused on context. But the handling of fonts is a core > feature of a typesetting system. No user of a typesetting system > would consider it to be complete if it can't handle standard fonts. > So even if in luatex the font loader (including all the code needed > to generate caches) is in external lua-files, it should nevertheless > be considered to be part of "the luatex binary". It shouldn't > delegate font handling to the formats.
I understand you're concerned about future font support in LuaTeX, but technically the engine is little more than an extendable PDFTeX. Fonts follow that philosophy: TFM (with mapping to T1) fonts are supported as in PDFTeX, other formats must be loaded and processed by hand. Whether it's a good idea or not in that case I don't know, but it is definitely consistent. (Actually I do think it's a good idea, but I accept my opinion might be marginal.) Now, as I've already said, Hans has written a format-independent font loader; somebody is only required to make the necessary adjustments to (La)TeX, as Khaled did until recently. My main point was not whether LuaTeX was well-designed, but whether (La)TeX users could be said to be neglected, which I still think isn't the case. Best, Paul -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
