Hello everyone,
Taco just released a new version of LuaTeX, so feel free to submit
your builds whenever you have time (Dick, I'm behind a virtual
machine, so no need to worry about mac binaries).
IMPORTANT: please update the building scripts in SVN prior to running
./do_all.sh. I changed the system a bit, so that now luajittex builds
from the same repository as luatex and also stores the binaries to the
same folder.
Please also use the scripts with some care and understanding. There is
a fair chance that I made mistakes or syntax errors when adapting the
code, so please let me know if you discover something suspicious (feel
free to check the differences with "svn diff").
(I manually applied the latest trivial patch from trunk, so that
lua(jit)tex builds at all.)
Mojca
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Taco Hoekwater
Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:43 PM
Hi,
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.
Changes:
* The luafontloader now returns 'tsidebearing' glyph values
for OT/TT fonts, if applicable.
* new lua variables: stats.luatex_hashtype, stats.luatex_hashchars,
stats.lastluaerrorstring; the luajittex string hash method is now
lua 5.1 compliant which gives better results for similar strings
* new lua functions: tex.init_rand(), tex.uniform_rand(),
tex.normal_rand(), tex.lua_math_randomseed(), tex.lua_math_random(),
tex.show_context(); these helpers make luatex and luajittex compatible
* In the lua node interface, there were often issues with rubbish
in (especially) 'prev' fields because luatex itself never looks
at those values. This is now cleaned up to prevent weird stuff
happening inside lua node processing code.
* pdf.pageattributes, pdf.pagesattributes, pdf.info, pdf.catalog,
pdf.names and pdf.trailer now behave consistent and can be used
to add these properties at the lua end in addition to their \pdf*
counterparts atthe tex end; there are now pdf.get* and pdf.set*
commands for them too (in future versions the old ways can become
obsolete)
* new accessors pdf.geth, pdfgetv, pdfgetpos, getgetmatrix as well
as pdfhasmatrix helpers (in future versions the direct pdf.h and
pdf.v accessor can become obsolete)
* the pdf.pdf* variables have been removed (they were already
obsolete for some years)
* a new properties mechanism for associating lua tables with nodes
that get cleaned up when nodes a freed (see manual for details)
* several improvements to the way temporary (backend) data is stored
at the lua end (better protection, more consistent)
* a 'l' type for user nodes that holds a lua variable (can be set
at the lua end)
* if a late lua node is set at the lua end the string value can be
a function as well which is then executed during serialization to
the backend stream
* Various small speedups
* Various smallish fixes to the node direct interface
* LPeg is now at version 0.12
* Some small fixes to the CFF (font) parsing
* Font file inclusion reporting messages on the terminal now
comply to the texconfig.trace_file_names setting
* Removed some of the additional luafontloader.info() return
information that was added in 0.78.2, but could not work
properly.
* new primitive \luafunction (see manual), with associated
lua.get_functions_table() function
* lua error message reporting has been altered a bit to make
the distinction between \directlua and other lua source code
sources clearer
* Additional pdf document data functionality in the 'pdf' table
has been cleaned up internally
* Additional pdf destination names can now be set via lua.
* New callbacks: finish_pdfpage, show_error_message,
show_lua_error_hook, start_file, stop_file
* Handling of \tracinglostchars is fixed
* Embedded metapost library version is now 1.900
* luajittex is now included in the distribution. One can use
buildjit.sh to build both luatex and luajittex, where
supported by the platform
* Synchronization with the TeXLive sources updated the following
libraries:
* libpng is now 1.6.10
* poppler is now 0.25.2
The archives can be downloaded from supelec as usual:
https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luatex/
You could also check out the sources via anonymous svn:
svn co --username anonsvn --password anonsvn \
https://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex/tags/beta-0.79.0
Bugs and feature requests can be added to the issue tracker at
http://tracker.luatex.org
Have fun,
Taco
