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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-projects.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-projects.tex index f4b93ef1e1a..347ea2e17ab 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-projects.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-projects.tex @@ -442,34 +442,10 @@ document is compiled with \pdftex{} or \xetex{}. \end{ctanrefs} \LastEdit{2013-02-21} -% \href{http://scripts.sil.org/xetex}{\xetex{}}, by Jonathan Kew, is a -% successor to the shareware \TeX{}/\acro{GX} program for Macintoshes. -% It is a Unicode-based \TeX{} implementation which is able to make -% direct use of the fonts installed on a system. It supports the -% advanced typographical features available in modern font technology -% (OpenType, \acro{AAT} on Mac~\acro{OS}~X, Graphite). \xetex{} was -% originally developed for Mac~\acro{OS}~X but it is now fully -% integrated in \texlive{} on a wide range of platforms, as well as -% being available as part of \miktex{}. \xetex{} supports Unicode -% character sets and bidirectional typesetting (via \eTeX{} primitives). -% It is popular among linguists and scholars in the humanities, as well -% as an increasing range of people working in other fields. Support for -% mathematical Unicode fonts (such as Asana Math and Cambria) is -% progressing. - -% The project has an active % ! line break -% \href{http://www.tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex}{mailing list}; a -% collection of other information is to be found in a set of % ! line break -% \href{http://www.tug.org/xetex/}{links on the \acro{TUG} web site}. -% \begin{ctanrefs} -% \item[\nothtml{\rmfamily}XeTeX reference]\CTANref{xetexref} -% \end{ctanrefs} - - \Question[Q-luatex]{\PDFTeX{} and \LuaTeX{}} -As is said elsewhere in these \acro{FAQ}s, development of +Elsewhere in these \acro{FAQ}s, we learn that development of \Qref*{\PDFTeX{}}{Q-whatpdftex} is ``in essence'' complete~--- no new facilities are being developed at the time of writing. The \PDFTeX{} team has announced that they have frozen \PDFTeX{}'s specification in @@ -477,18 +453,18 @@ its current state (version 1.40.11), and that nothing but bug corrections will be provided up to the time of the final release, \PDFTeX{} 1.50.0. (The interpretation of the statement seems to allow sensible changes that are beyond any reasonable definition of -\emph{bug}\dots) - -In parallel with the running-down of \PDFTeX{} development, -development of a new system, \LuaTeX{} is under way. -\href{http://www.lua.org/}{\ProgName{Lua}} is a script -language, designed to offer an interpreter that may be incorporated -into other applications. \LuaTeX{} consists of a \TeX{}-like engine -with a \ProgName{lua} interpreter `embedded' in it; the \ProgName{lua} -interpreter has access to many of the data structures used for -typesetting, and the user may also interpolate chunks of -\ProgName{lua} code into their \AllTeX{} macros, or as `call-backs' -for use when the \TeX{}-like engine does certain operations. +\emph{bug}\dots{}) + +As \PDFTeX{} development ran down, +development of a new system, \LuaTeX{} was started. +\href{http://www.lua.org/}{\ProgName{Lua}} is a interpreter designed +to be incorporated into other applications. \LuaTeX{} consists of a +\TeX{}-like engine with a \ProgName{lua} interpreter `embedded' in it; +the \ProgName{lua} interpreter has access to many of the data +structures used for typesetting, so that the programmer may also +interpolate chunks of \ProgName{lua} code into their \AllTeX{} macros, +or as `call-backs' for use when the \TeX{}-like engine does certain +operations. This arrangement offers the prospect of a ``semi-soft'' typesetting engine: it will have its basic behaviour, but the user gets to @@ -503,14 +479,12 @@ representations and support for OpenType fonts. The intention is to integrate the extensions pioneered by \Qref*{Aleph}{Q-omegaleph}. Users may also care to view the % ! line break \href{http://www.luatex.org/documentation.html}{\luatex{} documentation page} +or the \href{http://wiki.luatex.org}{\luatex{} \acro{WIKI}} -The current released version (0.70.1, in June 2011) of \LuaTeX{} -is supposed at least to demonstrate the final functionality. This -stability was declared with version 0.50.0, released near the end of -December 2009. Much work remains to be done, and this remains a -beta-release. \texlive{} 2011 incorporates (at the time of writing) -\LuaTeX{} version 0.70.1, and current \miktex{} (version 2.9) -offers version 0.70.0. +\texlive{} (2013) holds version 0.76.0 of \luatex{}. This version +demonstrates the ``final functionality'', though the project +remains a \ensuremath{\beta}-release. Functional stability was first +declared for version 0.50.0, released near the end of December 2009. \CONTeXT{} `Mark 4' can already make use of \LuaTeX{}; much of its code already appears in two forms~--- a \TeX{}-based version @@ -519,11 +493,16 @@ typically \emph{only} appears in `\extension{mkiv}' form), which uses \luatex{} extensions (including \ProgName{lua} scripting). \LaTeX{} packages that support its use are appearing (some of them providing re-implementations of existing \context{} code). + +\latex{} running over \luatex{} (commonly known as Lua\latex{}) is not +an ``official'' entity (yet), but useful packages are +appearing (i.e., the \ctan{} path \path{macros/luatex/latex} holds +several items). \begin{ctanrefs} \item[\nothtml{\rmfamily}\luatex{} snapshot]\CTANref{luatex} \item[\nothtml{\rmfamily}\pdftex{} distribution]\CTANref{pdftex} \end{ctanrefs} -\LastEdit{2011-11-02} +\LastEdit{2013-05-21} \Question[Q-ant]{The \textsf{ANT} typesetting system} |