[NTG-context] Hans' presentation: using plain TEX (from TUG 2009) [apologies if OT]

2010-04-03 Thread Graham Douglas
Dear Hans, Taco et al I hope this is the appropriate place to ask my question --- if not, my apologies. I've compiled LuaTeX on Windows and have been using Hans' presentation using plain TEX (from TUG 2009) to construct a minimal working runtime environment based on plain tex. Basically, a

Re: [NTG-context] Hans' presentation: using plain TEX (from TUG 2009) [apologies if OT]

2010-04-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3-4-2010 7:51, Graham Douglas wrote: So, is it possible to find and load .afm/.pfb with your luatex-plain example. Is that font machinery included in luatex-plain? the 'generic' code is only providing opentype support and type1/afm goes via the regular tex specific tfm route and believe

Re: [NTG-context] Hans' presentation: using plain TEX (from TUG 2009) [apologies if OT]

2010-04-03 Thread Graham Douglas
snip much good advice from Hans Hi Hans Thank you for your commnts. Oh, for sure, tinkering with plain is just an interim step along the (long...) road. A very minimal harness setup to write minimal code --- to play with the various LuaTeX API functions via GNU's gdb debugger. By building a

Re: [NTG-context] Hans' presentation: using plain TEX (from TUG 2009) [apologies if OT]

2010-04-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3-4-2010 8:56, Graham Douglas wrote: snip much good advice from Hans Hi Hans Thank you for your commnts. Oh, for sure, tinkering with plain is just an interim step along the (long...) road. A very minimal harness setup to write minimal code --- to play with the various LuaTeX API functions