Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 21:09, ivo welch wrote:
hi hans---just curious. do you plan conTeXt to use just one computer
language in the future?
(even though I'm not Hans ...)
No. At least TeX, lua and metapost will probably stay, so that already
adds to three languages :) :) :)
If talking about scripting (ruby, perl) ... in ideal world it should
all end up being lua only (until the next language comes to the
horizon), but there might not be enough motivation to rewrite *all*
the existing scripts, so some of the older scripts (texfont etc.) will
probably stay in ruby/perl for a while/forever unless somebody else
rewrites them or unless Hans will need them.
we'll see how many context+pdftex users are around in a few years from
now; of course i'll have a few existing workflows that use pdftex (and
probably for many years) but one seldom needs to generate fonts for that
actually yesterday i had to update a pdftex based style and generate
tfm's for an ttf font and of course the font was so bugged that i needed
fontforge to turn it into a proper pfb file with adobe encoding; the
original had a completely messed glyph names; interesting is that
mkiv/luatex works ok with that font but of course the unicode vector in
the pdf will be flaky as well
Hans
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