If I am not mistaken, you can write :
node.new(‘noad’, nodes.noadcodes.bin)
De : Henri Menke
Envoyé le :mercredi 16 mai 2018 07:39
À : ntg-context@ntg.nl >> mailing list for ConTeXt users
Objet :Re: [NTG-context] roadmap
I just thought of another thing.
Could you expose _all_ the subtypes of _all_ the different node types
similar to node.id? (currently this is only enabled for whatsits) As of
now I always have to go to texnodes.w, find the array and count to find
out which number a subtype has. It would be much easier if we could
node.new("noad", "bin")
instead of
node.new("noad", 4)
and I would also like to see
node.subtype("noad", "bin") -- return 4
On 15/05/18 11:34, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 5/15/2018 12:52 AM, Henri Menke wrote:
>
>> Math typesetting is really crappy in ConTeXt, but I get that this is
>> beyond your priorities. I plan to develop a module which resembles
>> the features and syntax of the amsmath LaTeX package for my PhD
>> thesis. I'm not sure how well this will integrate with the existing
>> mechanisms.
>
> hm. i have no clue what you refer to ... afaik most is configureable
>
>> - columnsets, the new ones have considerably fewer features than the
>> old ones.
>
> like ... but adding some is no problem (only predictable stuff) .. no
> column handler suits all (we now also have page columns btw)
>
>> - rowwise setups in xtables and maybe columnwise, but that is
>> computationally expensive.
>
> indeed so that's why we have categories instead
>
>>> - We can add more trickery for fonts and scripts. There are some
>>> pending extensions.
>>>
>>> - Maybe we should provide a few more general styles.
>>
>> What does that mean? Things like the TUGboat style?
>
> no, e.g. some basic educational stuff
>
>> More callbacks. I'm missing callbacks into error handling (i.e.
>> intercept errors) not just into error reporting like show_error_hook.
>
> if you want to intercept errors then that has to happen at the macro
> level, because once tex starts expanding the error can be anywhere
>
> (so, in a macro package one can set at the tex level flags that one can
> act upon in the error callback)
>
> (the eror messages themselves might become a layer but that's for later)
>
>> Throw out all non-Lua-related primitives and ntg-context@ntg.nlreplace
>> them with Lua functions. People can then define those primitives
>> themselves, e.g.
>
> way too slow ... in that case i'd drop tex completely (i.e. do all in lua)
>
> also, you can right now (re)define primitives if you like (depending on
> the definition of primitive)
>
>> \suppressoutererror
>>
>> becomes
>>
>> \protected\def\suppressoutererror{%
>> \directlua{errors.suppressoutererror()}}
>>
>> This makes it much easier to access that stuff from Lua. Also
>> interface all the \pdfvariable and \pdfextension stuff to Lua.
>
> all pdf stuff is already doable in lua (context doesn't even use \pdf*
> for quite a while)
>
>> This should have maybe been done before 1.0 but I guess with 2.0 you
>> can introduce “breaking” features.
>
> well, a 2.0 (if ever) will probably only be useable for context ...
>
>> LuaJIT will always be 5.1 compatible. That is one of the declared
>> goals of the project. However there exist compatibility layers for
>> Lua which implement recent features for older interpreters.
>> https://github.com/keplerproject/lua-compat-5.3
>
> in that case in the end it will be dropped ...
>
>> I would rather not see LuaJIT support being dropped. The VM by itself
>> (without JIT) is already a lot faster than regular Lua and I feel that
>> the ConTeXt runs benefit from that quite a lot. I use contextjit as
>> my daily driver.
>
> hm, at most 20% which is also what i get when i buy a new laptop
>
> keep in mind that luajit has some limitations (stack and such)
>
> (and the last few years i managed to squeeze out a lot from lua, and
> with lua 5.3 the gaps became narrower)
> Hans
>
>
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