John Culleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 October 2007 10:49:44 am Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> at the risk of sounding rude or impatient: I'd love to know when new
>>> releases of luatex and ConTeXt mkiv can be expected. The latest
>>> luatex trunk has some problems (no ligatures, hyphenation flaky) and
>>> doesn't work with some of my fonts. Latest ConTeXt beta only works
>>> with trunk of luatex. Hans mentioned some fundamental changes in
>>> luatex, so I was just wondering.
>> later this week there will be a new beta
>>
>> Hans
>
> What will a luatex based Context do for us that the current stable Context
> doesn't?
open type to start with, robustly grouped features, better and more
robust spacing some day soon, more efficient and flexible xml, a new
sectioning implementation, instant metapost processing (next year), and
much more; eventually fundamental new features will only be written for
luatex and pdftex (traditional tex) will be frozen.
Hans
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