Hi, this weekend I've met Hans, Hartmut and Taco in Schwetzingen (we attended the christmas party of the Darmstadt TeXies with Hermann Zapf) and we discussed the status and future of pdfTeX. We came down with this "roadmap": 1.40 (200603): - all the current patches plus \primitive et.al - cleanup the code (fewer patchfiles) to have a better starting point for lua - move project to Gforge hosted by Fabrice, and setup a complete code repository there - start of "pdfTeX news" 1.50 - more bits, i.e. use more than 16 (and enough) where possible 1.60 or later - general map file handling for pdfTeX and all programs that use map files - OpenType -- this requires more bits and can be done in steps - lua -- integration can be done post 1.40, but the TeX<->Lua interface needs much testing and developement, so lua will stay experimental for quite some time sometime (i.e. whenever it's ready) - tagged pdf - merging hyperlinks in included documents Best Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de