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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-luatex.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-luatex.html index ccf0a5bf62c..a261c0d48a3 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-luatex.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-luatex.html @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ </head><body> <h3>PDFTeX and LuaTeX</h3> <p/>As is said elsewhere in these FAQs, development of -<a href="FAQ-whatpdftex.html">PDFTeX</a> is “in essence” complete — +<a href="FAQ-whatpdftex.html">PDFTeX</a> is “in essence” complete — no new facilities are being developed. The PDFTeX team has announced that they have frozen PDFTeX in its current state (version 1.49.10), and that nothing but bug corrections will be @@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ into other applications. LuaTeX consists of a TeX-like engine with a <i>lua</i> interpreter built into it; the <i>lua</i> interpreter has access to many of the data structures used for typesetting, and the user may also interpolate chunks of -<i>lua</i> code into their (La)TeX macros, or as ‘call-backs’ +<i>lua</i> code into their (La)TeX macros, or as ‘call-backs’ for use when the TeX-like engine does certain operations. -<p/>This arrangement offers the prospect of a “semi-soft” typesetting +<p/>This arrangement offers the prospect of a “semi-soft” typesetting engine: it will have its basic behaviour, but the user gets to -redefine functionality if an idea occurs — there will be no need to +redefine functionality if an idea occurs — there will be no need to persuade the world first, and then find a willing developer to work on the sources of of the distribution. <p/>The <a href="http://www.luatex.org/">LuaTeX project</a> is (with monetary @@ -28,15 +28,16 @@ support from various sources) pursuing avenues that many of the other current projects have in their sights, notably Unicode character representations and support for OpenType fonts. The intention is to integrate the extensions pioneered by <a href="FAQ-omegaleph.html">Aleph</a>. -<p/>Version 0.50.0 of LuaTeX is intended to at least demonstrate the final -functionality; it was released near the end of December 2009. Much -work remains to be done, and this remains a beta-release. +<p/>The current version (0.60.0, in April 2010) 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. TeX Live 2009 incorporates (at the time of writing) LuaTeX -version 0.44.0, but the latest MiKTeX (version 2.8) still doesn’t +version 0.44.0, but the latest MiKTeX (version 2.8) still doesn’t offer it. -<p/>ConTeXt ‘Mark 4’ can already make use of LuaTeX; much of its -code already appears in two forms — a TeX-based version -(<code>.mkii</code>) and a ‘<code>.mkiv</code>’ version. LaTeX is also +<p/>ConTeXt ‘Mark 4’ can already make use of LuaTeX; much of its +code already appears in two forms — a TeX-based version +(<code>.mkii</code>) and a ‘<code>.mkiv</code>’ version. LaTeX is also steadily acquiring macro packages in support of its use. <p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=luatex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=luatex</a> </body> |