[luatex] Luatex 0.79.0 announcement

Jan Tosovsky j.tosovsky at email.cz
Sat Mar 29 07:51:20 CET 2014


On 2014-03-28 Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 3/28/2014 7:23 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> > On 2014-03-28 Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> >>
> >> I have just uploaded the archives for a new luatex release, 0.79.0.
> >> This fixes a few of the outstanding bugs, and is the version that
> >> will be included in TeXLive 2014.
> >
> > Thanks for that!
> >
> > Btw, has anybody any idea where the following 'dotlessi' patch has
> > been lost?
> >
> > http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2013/076306.html
> >
> > It was working in December in ConTeXt 2013.12.20 / LuaTeX 0.77.0 on
> > Windows 7
> 
> because it was not okay (too much fuzziness and dead slow too) ... 

Sad to hear that. I thought the patch was about removing duplicates when
building the initial glyph table and didn't expected these severe side
effects...

> might be that i can cook up a version at the context end (like an
> overload)

>From my POV the font handling is a very low level part and should be kept in
luatex...

Thanks, Jan




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