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@@ -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}