[NTG-context] ruby or perl or lua or ...

2009-07-14 Thread ivo welch
hi hans---just curious. do you plan conTeXt to use just one computer language in the future? /iaw ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.n

Re: [NTG-context] ruby or perl or lua or ...

2009-07-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
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 a

Re: [NTG-context] ruby or perl or lua or ...

2009-07-14 Thread Hans Hagen
ivo welch wrote: hi hans---just curious. do you plan conTeXt to use just one computer language in the future? indeed. most useful script are already converted to lua (mtx-* files that run on top of mtxrun); the advantage is that mtxrun has a built in filedatabase handler (so we don't use kp

Re: [NTG-context] ruby or perl or lua or ...

2009-07-14 Thread Hans Hagen
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 :)