[luatex] Luatex 1.09.0 announcement (following)

Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu.org
Fri Nov 30 08:41:50 CET 2018


About a month ago I wrote:

>> We have a new pdf parser (pplib from Paweł Jackowski) that replaces
>> poppler.  It is much smaller, a bit faster and it's written in
>> pure C [...]
> 
> Is there a project page for pplib?  The source code of this library
> contained in TeXLive is very, very uncommented – in particular, a
> description of the API is completely missing, AFAICS.  It also comes
> with overly long lines and extremely densely written C code; it
> almost feels as if the original source has been written with cweb or
> something like that.

I would be glad if someone could answer my question.


    Werner



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