[luatex] Luatex 0.79.0 announcement

[Hans Hagen]

On 3/29/2014 7:51 AM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> 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...

we're talking of heuristics for determining glyphnames when not present 
and that is a real messy thing ... in fact, better would be to keep all 
that at the lua end (easier to overload) and eventually that might 
happen (it's quite hard to fight frozen invalid properties)

Hans

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