[lltx] [luaotfload] Default mode

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard mpg at elzevir.fr
Fri May 21 14:47:09 CEST 2010


Le 21/05/2010 14:37, Khaled Hosny a écrit :
> Currently, the default OpenType processing mode is the very limited
> "base" mode, it is supposed to be faster than the more complete "node"
> mode, but in practice the speed difference is unnoticeable. Since all
> advanced OpenType features (any thing beyond good old TeX ligaturing)
> doesn't work in "base" mode, I don't see much point of making it
> default.
> 
I agree. Speed considerations are not important unless it becomes reeeaaaaaaly
sloooow.

> The only place where "base" is required is math, but I think it is
> reasonable to ask users of OpenType math to set mode to "base", not the
> other way around.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
I agree with you.

m


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