[lltx] luaotfload update

[Patrick Gundlach]

(I'll leave the full quote for the CC to the luatex list)


Hi Khaled. Many, many thanks to your work with luaotfload! Does that also imply the ff, ... -ligatures? (I guess so). Why can't we (=you) stick to the current master branch? 

Patrick



Am 06.10.2011 um 03:22 schrieb Khaled Hosny:

> Hello list,
> 
> I managed to finish the long due syncing of luaotfload with ConTeXt,
> in the unstable branch:
> https://github.com/khaledhosny/luaotfload/tree/unstable
> 
> and updated fontspec as well:
> https://github.com/wspr/fontspec/tree/otfl-unstable
> 
> There are many internal changes in this update which would break any
> package depending on internal lua interfaces, also bugs and breakage are
> highly probable. I did some basic testing, but more testing are
> welcomed.
> 
> In this update too the support for non-standard features were dropped,
> namely tlig & trep (AKA TeX ligatures) and anum (was anybody using
> this?). Hans no longer includes that code in his "plain variant" from
> which luaotfload is derived, and even when he did only -- and --- were
> supported and I had to patch it to add the rest. Someone have to
> convince Hans to implement this in the "plain variant" or implement it
> himself, I don't really need this feature myself.
> 
> Also loading of OFM fonts is now broken, I don't feel like debugging
> this and I doubt anyone is using them, but the above applies here too.
> 
> Finally, if someone can put this on tlcontrib, this would be great.
> 
> Regards,
> Khaled
> 
> -- 
> Khaled Hosny
> Egyptian
> Arab