[luatex] lua transliterations on the fly

[Luis Rivera]

On 7 January 2011 04:38, Philipp Stephani <st_philipp at yahoo.de> wrote:
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> There is nothing simple about loading OTF fonts; luaotfload contains more than 10000 lines of code.
> But what I mean with making the file robust is protection against catcode changes, using LaTeX if it's available, disabling loading the file twice, and so on.
>

OK. So it really seems that full portability among formats comes at a
cost. Thanks.

Having that in mind, I shall try to get a LaTeX package working before
trying to make it portable to Plain.

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> languages have little to do with input any more once you use Unicode.
>

... save activating the right hyphenation patterns for a given
language which may share the same script with other languages (e.g.
the full range of languages using latin or cyrillic alphabets).

>
> polyglossia requires XeLaTeX, it doesn't work with plain LuaTeX or LuaLaTeX.
>

Roger that. I will write a note to Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard, since the
Guide to LuaLaTeX does not mention that.

> BTW, you should _not_ do something like replacing ^c by ĉ. If you want ĉ, type ĉ. Use a keyboard layout that contains that character, an input method, or some auto-correction function of your text editor, but don't transform text while processing. This is true no matter whether you write text files, HTML, TeX, or whatever. Babel-like shorthands are completely obsoleted by Unicode and cause more problems than they solve.
>

»don't transform text while processing« is a Best Practice principle;
I am aware I am exploring an awkward way to achieve the same effect.
My guess is that with a embedded Lua routine it is actually doable
with LuaTeX. It seems that I am not very wrong.

Cheers,

-- 
Luis Rivera
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