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Re: LuaTeX >= 0.85 support
From: |
Karl Berry |
Subject: |
Re: LuaTeX >= 0.85 support |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:41:17 GMT |
However, LuaTeX team changed them significantly after ver. 0.80.
Yes. And more changes will surely come, at any and every level -- no
stability has ever been guaranteed until 1.0, for which there is no ETA.
E.g., the latest news is that (as I understand it) LuaTeX ignores
\language0 and thus does not hyphenate normal English by default. I
don't know how to restore the standard behavior.
http://tug.org/pipermail/luatex/2016-February/005685.html
Hans told me there is a file luatex-pdf.tex in the ConTeXt distribution
that shows the changes. I can also send you guys preprints of a couple
of short articles by him for the next TUGboat describing (some of) the
changes, if you want.
If it were up to me, I would simply declare LuaTeX unsupported at least
until 1.0. It seems that tracking Hans's changes from now on will imply
a huge investment of time and effort, let alone doing it in a compatible
way so that people not running the bleeding edge will keep working as
well. I don't see that the return is worth it. But of course, if you
want to, more power to you!
Best,
Karl