[lltx] [luatexbase] Change in the behaviour of \newluatexattribute ?

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard mpg at elzevir.fr
Fri May 21 15:17:58 CEST 2010


Le 21/05/2010 14:56, Elie Roux a écrit :
> Khaled Hosny a écrit :
>> After spending most of the day debugging why Arabic shaping is broken in
>> the luaotfload, it turned out to be an attribute issue. The first
>> allocated attribute by \newluatexattribute is 0 and ConTeXt code don't
>> seem to like that, it specifically expects attributes used in luaotfload
>> to be < 255 and > 127.
>>   
> 
> IIRC, ConTeXt doesn't really care about the 127-255 range, whereas it
> really cares about using the attribute 0, that's why I made the first
> attribute 1 in luatextra...

You should have commented that, I thought it was a mistake (it's to easy to get
mixed up with such things).

> What about doing the same in luatexbase? I
> don't think it really hurts anything...
> 
I don't mind either way. But if we do change it un luatexbase, let's documented.

I'm about to leave now, more about that tonight (it'll let me time to think
about it).

Manuel.


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