Re: [Dev-luatex] Modifying the LuaTeX Engine

2008-12-30 Thread Hans Hagen
Yue Wang wrote: Hi: WOW! This is very impressive! Thanks for your work. So I think we can add vertical CJK typesetting feature to LuaTeX/MKIV next year? it all depends a bit on integration in the output routine/pagebody builder, but it should be doable (more a topic for the context list the

Re: [Dev-luatex] Q: Can LuaTeX produce xdv?

2008-12-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Jonathan Fine wrote: As subject. xdv is the eXtended DVi format used by XeTeX. No, it cannot. Perhaps it should, but that needs a volunteer. Best wishes, Taco ___ dev-luatex mailing list dev-luatex@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-lua

[Dev-luatex] Q: Can LuaTeX produce xdv?

2008-12-30 Thread Jonathan Fine
As subject. xdv is the eXtended DVi format used by XeTeX. I did a search on the mailing list archive and nothing came up. http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=dev-luatex%40ntg.nl&q=xdv Jonathan ___ dev-luatex mailing list dev-luatex@ntg.nl http:/

Re: [Dev-luatex] Modifying the LuaTeX Engine

2008-12-30 Thread Yue Wang
Hi: WOW! This is very impressive! Thanks for your work. So I think we can add vertical CJK typesetting feature to LuaTeX/MKIV next year? [Wolfgang is busy writing the wishlist for cjk typesetting, so i think he will be very interested in experimenting your results] Yue Wang On Tue, Dec 30, 20

Re: [Dev-luatex] Modifying the LuaTeX Engine

2008-12-30 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
>>Furthermore you all talk about LTR and RTL, but what about vertical >>typesetting, in the Chinese or in >the Mongolian way? Obviously TeX-e-Parsi >>doesn't care about that. > > It's true. and I think Omega did not handle that well either. Actually, Omega did a reasonable job, the bottleneck

Re: [Dev-luatex] Modifying the LuaTeX Engine

2008-12-30 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> What? I'm confident that all of us have a great respect and admiration for > Donald Knuth and his work, and that none of us worship him. Just out of interest, how do you know this? I, myself, indulge in daily practice of libations and creed in honor of His achievements. I consider using Te

Re: [Dev-luatex] Modifying the LuaTeX Engine - OT: Don Knuth

2008-12-30 Thread Hans Hagen
Jonathan Fine wrote: actually i've heard Don say (at an ntg QA session long ago) that he was surprised that there were no more fundamental extensions like pdftex (at that time upcoming); also, there is a difference between (say) 2^4 fundamental different tex variants and 2^32 confusingly slig

Re: [Dev-luatex] Luatex beta 0.31.3

2008-12-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Zhichu Chen wrote: Hi Taco, I downloaded the code and compiled it on my Leopard 10.5.5 with gcc 4.0.1 from Xcode, and I got a lot of, almost every one of, Not even close to all of them, don't worry :) It is a small error on my side (every object file should define at least one symbol accordi