[luatex] Fribidi for LuaTeX

luigi scarso luigi.scarso at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 07:18:58 CEST 2011


2011/7/20 James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com>:
>>>>>> "ISH" == Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <ishamid at colostate.edu> writes:
>
> ISH> We must all remember that luatex has a different philosophy from xetex
> ISH> etc. luatex provides the most basic, low-level, bi-dir-ectionality as
> ISH> perfectly as possible.
>
> Just to avoid any misunderstandings, my expectation was not that luatex
> should use fribidi’s high-level api directly, but rather that it could
> provide a lua binding to fribidi’s whole API.  Lua code could then do
> whatever bidi users need/want and still take advantage of the speed
> benefits of compiled code.
A week ago I've posted a binding based on swig.

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luigi



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