2 This file is in the public domain.
4 ==============================================================
5 Luatex Release 0.89.0 was released 2016020500
6 ==============================================================
8 No fundamental changes, just some fixes / improvements (and of course new bugglets).
11 \pdfvariable pkfixeddpi = integer % > 0 : use only default dpi (so one can do with one high res instance)
12 \pdfvariable ignoreunknownimages = integer % > 0 : ignore missing and inject something empty (to be used with care)
14 \edef\foo{\pdfvariable foo}
16 \ifx\foo\oof don't fool me\fi
17 (side effect of no longer aborting on missing, so one implement a catch)
22 ==============================================================
23 Luatex Release 0.88.0 was released 2016011500
24 ==============================================================
26 This is a next step upto 0.90 and it has the following changes:
28 - mostly small bug fixes
30 - a few setters/getters added to the pdf namespace (were in the tex one before)
32 - The current libraries under libs are now:
46 ==============================================================
47 Luatex beta-0.87.0 was released 2015121700
48 ==============================================================
52 This is a next step upto 0.90 and it has the following changes:
54 - image data is no longer stored in the format (it was fragile anyway)
56 - pdf backend data generated when in ini mode is no longer stored in the format
58 - (incomplete) \mag support removed from pdf backend (this functionality is
61 - there are a couple of improvements that should make luatex run a little bit faster
62 (but of course that depends on the job at hand)
64 - some further pending issues / cleanup has been done (but this is not reflected in the
67 - there is a new primitive \nospace:
69 \nospace=1 do now not inject glue for spaces (not even zero glue)
70 \nospace=2 inject zero glue for spaces
72 - there are new primitives \hpack, \vpack and \tpack that are like \hbox, \vbox and
73 \vtop but they don't trigger callbacks
75 - we no longer keep track of older math character and delimiter definition states,
76 but this should normally go unnoticed
78 - from now on only ^^XX, ^^C, ^^^^XXXX and ^^^^^^XXXXXX are supported so no funny odd
79 values (three and five)
81 - texio.setescape(0) disables escaping to terminal (a matter of taste)
83 - the (current) lc codes are now saved with the (current) language when patterns are
84 loaded unless one hs used \hjcode instead of \lccode; overloading of \hjcodes is
85 possible (but of course goes ahead of hyphenation which is delayed till parbuilding or
88 - active characters can now be set with: \letcharcode123=\foo (experimental)
90 - there are some experimental new primitives but these will be described when they are
91 stable (currently being tested)
93 - there is more backend error reporting and all error messages adn warnings (the non-tex
94 ones) have been normalized
96 - of course there are the usual small fixes and additional setters and getters in libraries
100 ==============================================================
101 Luatex beta-0.85.0 was released 2015111400 (5550)
102 ==============================================================
105 The 0.85 release is has a lot of changes. It is the prelude to 0.90 which itself is
106 a prelude to the 0.95 that will go on texlive 2016. The 1.00 release will happen
107 around the 2016 context meeting. After that 2.* will become the next experimental
108 branch (leading to 3.*). The most important changes between 0.80 and 0.85 are mentioned
109 below. For more information consult the manual.
111 -- the backend commands
113 There is a better separation between front- and backend code. Some of the generic
114 \pdf* commands have been promoted to core primitives (with different names), some
115 have been removes like ximagecolordepth and ximagebbox have been removed and
116 all that are left have been organized differently. The backend is now more abstract
117 and provides three primitives only
119 \pdfextension <keyword> <optional spec>
120 \pdfvariable <keyword>
121 \pdffeedback <keyword>
123 The first replaces \pdfannot and alike, the second replaces the variables that can
124 be sused to control behaviour, and the third accesses the read only variables. See
125 luatex-pdf.tex in the context distribution for a plain definition file.
127 The big advantage of the separation (basically core (lua)tex + extensions) is that
128 changes in the backend don't have consequences for the frontend and it's easier to
129 locate possible issues in the code. We might split a bit more at the lua end too.
133 The boundary, dir and localpar whatsits are now normal nodes. The xforms and ximage
134 whatsits are now a special kind of rule nodes (subtypes 1 and 2) and known as box-
135 and image resources (see manual). Also, empty rules are now a valid subtype (subtype
136 3) with related commands \nohrule and \novrule.
138 At the lua end one can now access the fields of a spec subnode directly in the parent,
139 which has the benefit of more control and robust assignments (no need to check for
140 writeability) while we keep the concept of shared glue specs (tex internals). By
141 staying close to traditional TeX the Knuthian documentation still applies in most
144 The pdf action nodes are now pdf_action whatsit nodes (so no longer a pseudo core
147 You can get the node subtypes with the node.subtypes function which adds a layer
148 of abstraction (foo.subtype = "string" might be added in the future).
152 The hz optimization already only supported level 2 optimization, but now has a variant
153 3 that does only stretch glyphs and not kerns. Pending is a change where we go back to
154 percentages instead of fractions of em.
158 The old/new codepath has been checked and italic correction which is fundamental
159 different between the engines has been (partially) redone.
161 We now have \mathsurroundskip that replaces mathsurround when it's non zero.
163 The \mathtoptions (old 1) directive can be used for testing. This primitive is mostly for
164 ourselves and used for development.
166 The \Umathcharclass, \Umathcharfam and \Umathcharslot primitives can be used to fetch
167 properties of a math character.
169 The new \Uleft, \Uright and \Umiddle fence operators accept "height <dimen>", "depth
170 <dimen>" and the "noaxis" keyword as well the "exact" keyword for non-fitting ones. There
171 is also \Uvextension. Optionally one can specify a 'class'.
173 The \Udelimiter[under|over] and \U[under|over]delimiter primitives accept a width as well
174 as left, middle and right keywords (for non fitting ones). There is also \Uhextension.
176 The \abovewithdelimiter command accepts 'exact' as keyword (before the dimension) which nils
177 the excessive spacing. The normal vgaps still apply.
179 We have a new fraction primitive \Uskewed with a companion \Uskewedwithdelims. Optional
180 keywords are 'noaxis' and 'exact'.
182 There is a new directive \mathdisplayskipmode (esp for controlling the > 0 below skip check).
184 With \mathscriptsmode you can fix anchoring of scripts (as needed for chemistry).
186 The \Umathaccent commands accept a width and fraction argument.
190 The discretionary command now accept an optional "penalty <number>" specification
191 where the penalty will be stored with the node. Default is hyphenpenalty.
195 texio.write/write_nl now writes to file if the first argument is a (valid) number
196 reference to a file opened at the tex end; you can now open 128 files from the tex end
197 (0..127) and the system command is no longer executed with 18
201 The tex.<internal variable> is hopefully better now. The tex.get* also can handle
202 the built in registers. Especially prevdepth access should work out ok now.
206 As usual there are lots of small fixes, improvements, overhauls, small additions,
207 hopefully all mentioned in the manual.
211 This version is probably not compatible with the macro package that you use as some
212 engine specific initializations need to take place (\pdf commands) and some node types
213 have been changed. We now have separated pdf backend commands and the only left
214 primitive categories are: core, (tex), etex and luatex, so no more pdftex, omega and
215 umath (where the distinction became to fuzzy). Of course you can still prefix.
219 ==============================================================
220 Luatex beta-0.81.0 was released 2015100722 (5350)
221 ==============================================================
225 * A couple of primitives are removed, renamed and/or promoted to core (luatex) primitives.
226 Here's a summary. It might demand some adaption in the way macro packages initialize so we will mention them here explicitly in advance. As shown below, a simple way to get backward compatibility is to \let old ones to new ones. So,
228 Updating to this version also might demand an update in the
229 macro package that you use!
233 % removed, can be done with callbacks if needed, one can define dimen dummies, like
235 \newdimen\pdfeachlineheight
236 \newdimen\pdfeachlinedepth
237 \newdimen\pdflastlinedepth
238 \newdimen\pdffirstlineheight
239 \newdimen\pdfignoreddimen
241 % removed, were already obsolete, one can \let them
243 \let\pdftexversion \luatexversion
244 \let\pdftexrevision\luatexrevision
245 \let\pdftexbanner \luatexbanner
247 % promoted (from pdftex), so pdf prefix gone, one can \let them
249 \let\pdfnormaldeviate \normaldeviate
250 \let\pdfuniformdeviate\uniformdeviate
251 \let\pdfsetrandomseed \setrandomseed
252 \let\pdfrandomseed \randomseed
254 % promoted (from omega), so pdf prefix gone, one can \let them
256 \let\pdfpagewidth \pagewidth
257 \let\pdfpageheight\pageheight
259 % redundant (etex wins over omega), so \font-less ones gone, one can \let them
261 \let\chardp\fontchardp
262 \let\charht\fontcharht
263 \let\charit\fontcharit
264 \let\charwd\fontcharwd
266 % promoted (from aleph)
271 % promoted (from pdftex)
277 % removed (from pdftex), so *pdf* ones gone, one can \let them
279 \let\ifpdfabsnum \ifabsnum
280 \let\ifpdfabsdim \ifabsdim
281 \let\ifpdfprimitive\ifprimitive
282 \let\pdfprimitive \primitive
284 % promoted (from omega)
292 % promoted (from aleph)
296 % promoted (from pdftex)
307 % promoted (from pdftex), so *pdf* ones gone, one can \let them
309 \let\pdfprotrudechars\protrudechars
310 \let\pdfadjustspacing\adjustspacing
312 \let\pdfnoligatures \ignoreligaturesinfont
313 \let\pdffontexpand \expandglyphsinfont
315 % promoted (from pdftex), so *pdf* ones gone, one can \let them
317 \let\pdfsavepos \savepos
318 \let\pdflastxpos\lastxpos
319 \let\pdflastypos\lastypos
321 % on the todo list are:
323 \pdfoutput : \outputmode
324 \pdfmatrix : will get a normal syntax, no weird { } parsing
326 \pdfcolorstackinit : might become obsolete
327 \pdfcolorstack : might become obsolete
329 So, apart from a few, the \pdf* primitives now relate to the backend only.
331 % There is also a new primitive:
335 This one determines the minimum word length (per language).
336 At the same time we moved the (ex)hyphenpenalties
337 in the disc nodes so you can inject discretionaries with specific penalties.
339 There will also be an updated manual.
343 * new epdf.openMemStream(s,l,docid)
344 to create a pdf from a lightuserdata or string.
345 (experimental, do not use in production.)
347 * uniform random generator in mplib is now specific for each numbersystem;
349 * too_precise implemented for binary number system;
354 ==============================================================
355 Luatex beta-0.80.0 was released 20150319 (5195)
356 ==============================================================
358 * New library newtokenlib. It will replace the current token lib.
359 * Fixed a bug on the normal random generator for double/decimal/binary
361 * Several others bugs fixed.
364 ==============================================================
365 Luatex beta-0.79.3.1 was released 20150122 (5140)
366 ==============================================================
368 * Fixed a bug in mp.w with a wrong input that gives a seg. fault.
372 ==============================================================
373 Luatex beta-0.79.3 was released 20150121 (5130)
374 ==============================================================
377 * It's now possible with the MinGW compilers to build luatex and luajittex as DLL
378 for Windows 32bit/64bit. The files are:
379 libkpathsea-6.dll luajittex.exe luatex.exe texlua52.dll texluajit.dll
380 In the next release the build.sh script be updated; for the moment just add
381 "--enable-shared -disable-native-texlive-build " after --disable-all-pkgs
383 Building as DLL was tested only for Windows.
385 * When possibile symbols in the exe are now hidden:
386 this should avoid conflicts with the loading of dynamic shared object.
388 * several bugfixes and improvements. The patches for MetaPost
389 fix seg. faults occourred with wrong inputs.
391 mp_get_numeric_value, mp_get_string_value, mp_get_boolean_value
392 works if the value is a variable (i.e. not an internal variable,
393 a loop variable and a macro argument);
394 only mp_get_numeric_value now has support for loop variable
395 and internal variable (but still not for macro arguments).
398 ==============================================================
399 Luatex beta-0.79.2 was released 20141111 (5082)
400 ==============================================================
403 * WARNING: the structure of the format file is changed.
404 After the Web2C \TeX's magic constant: "W2TX" there is now
405 a FORMAT_ID, a 32bit field that cannot be between 0 and 256 (included)
406 so that there are no conflicts with the preexisting structure
408 The value can be seen with --debug-format and currently is
409 907 (the sum of the values of the bytes of the ASCII string "don knuth").
411 * There is a new set of lua functions for StructElement and Attribute,
412 convenient (even if not indispensable) for tagged pdf.
415 * several bugfixes and improvements.
418 ==============================================================
419 Luatex beta-0.79.0 was released 20140328 (4960)
420 ==============================================================
422 * The luafontloader now returns 'tsidebearing' glyph values
423 for OT/TT fonts, if applicable.
425 * new lua variables: stats.luatex_hashtype, stats.luatex_hashchars,
426 stats.lastluaerrorstring; the luajittex string hash method is now
427 lua 5.1 compliant which gives better results for similar strings
429 * new lua functions: tex.init_rand(), tex.uniform_rand(),
430 tex.normal_rand(), tex.lua_math_randomseed(), tex.lua_math_random(),
431 tex.show_context(); these helpers make luatex and luajittex compatible
433 * In the lua node interface, there were often issues with rubbish
434 in (especially) 'prev' fields because luatex itself never looks
435 at those values. This is now cleaned up to prevent weird stuff
436 happening inside lua node processing code.
438 * pdf.pageattributes, pdf.pagesattributes, pdf.info, pdf.catalog,
439 pdf.names and pdf.trailer now behave consistent and can be used
440 to add these properties at the lua end in addition to their \pdf*
441 counterparts atthe tex end; there are now pdf.get* and pdf.set*
442 commands for them too (in future versions the old ways can become
445 * new accessors pdf.geth, pdfgetv, pdfgetpos, getgetmatrix as well
446 as pdfhasmatrix helpers (in future versions the direct pdf.h and
447 pdf.v accessor can become obsolete)
449 * the pdf.pdf* variables have been removed (they were already
450 obsolete for some years)
452 * a new properties mechanism for associating lua tables with nodes
453 that get cleaned up when nodes a freed (see manual for details)
455 * several improvements to the way temporary (backend) data is stored
456 at the lua end (better protection, more consistent)
458 * a 'l' type for user nodes that holds a lua variable (can be set
461 * if a late lua node is set at the lua end the string value can be
462 a function as well which is then executed during serialization to
465 * Various small speedups
467 * Various smallish fixes to the node direct interface
469 * LPeg is now at version 0.12
471 * Some small fixes to the CFF (font) parsing
473 * Font file inclusion reporting messages on the terminal now
474 comply to the texconfig.trace_file_names setting
476 * Removed some of the additional luafontloader.info() return
477 information that was added in 0.78.2, but could not work
480 * new primitive \luafunction (see manual), with associated
481 lua.get_functions_table() function
483 * lua error message reporting has been altered a bit to make
484 the distinction between \directlua and other lua source code
487 * Additional pdf document data functionality in the 'pdf' table
488 has been cleaned up internally
490 * Additional pdf destination names can now be set via lua.
492 * New callbacks: finish_pdfpage, show_error_message,
493 show_lua_error_hook, start_file, stop_file
495 * Handling of \tracinglostchars is fixed
497 * Embedded metapost library version is now 1.900
499 * luajittex is now included in the distribution. One can use
500 buildjit.sh to build both luatex and luajittex, where
501 supported by the platform
503 * Synchronization with the TeXLive sources updated the following
505 * libpng is now 1.6.10
506 * poppler is now 0.25.2
508 ==============================================================
509 Luatex beta-0.78.2 was released 20140113 (4748)
510 ==============================================================
512 * Extended luafontloader's info() function to include data
513 from the 'pfminfo' and 'names' structure.
515 * Fixed a bug in the luafontloader library that made loading
516 some fonts extremely slow (LastResort.ttf)
518 * Removed a recent extension in the luafontloader library that
519 made loading fonts with lots of glyphs slow (ArialUnicoce.ttf).
520 Note: the extension made sure that there were no duplicate
521 glyph names in the font after loading.
523 * Restored --recorder output for lua files (dofile/loadfile/io.open)
525 * One-at-a-time pattern adding from lua used to require enormous
528 * luatex's fontloader.to_table() no longer reports 'altuni' table
529 information for alternates that are solely driven by the font
530 encoding. This fixes loading time issues for fonts that fill
531 encodings by copying a single glyph many times, like e.g.
532 LastResort.ttf from Apple.
534 * The datestamp no longer appears in any banners. The associated
535 \luatexdatestamp primitive is deprecated and will be removed
538 * Synchronization with the TeXLive sources updated the following
540 * cairo is now 1.12.16
541 * pixman is now 0.32.4
544 * poppler is now 0.25.0
546 * That same TL synchronization also fixes these issues:
547 * Always write "\nendstream" to the PDF for PDF/A-1b compliance.
548 * Large file support (>4GB) in Lua
549 * Big images could overflow on systems where sizeof(long)=4.
550 * In writing CID CFF fonts to the PDF, and end_dict() was missing.
551 * Unknown 'post' table versions (found in some broken ttf/otf
552 fonts) are now treated as-if they specified version 3.0.
553 * Fix crashes on 32-bit systems caused by bad C header inclusion
555 * Handle '--luac' and '--luaconly' properly
556 * luatex is now released under GPLv2+, not just GPLv2.
557 * luatex can now find .ofm metric files even if the extension
558 is not given explicitly.
560 * node.unset_attribute() was broken in 0.78.0
562 * The UTF-8 commandline patch from 0.78.0 for Win32 was removed
563 again (did not work properly)
565 ==============================================================
566 Luatex beta-0.78.0 was released 20131231
567 ==============================================================
569 * Instead of using expanded fonts, just calculate the expanded
570 width of glyphs where needed, and carry expand info in the
571 glyph nodes (all based on Hans' suggestions). All font expansion
572 functions are disabled and most are removed.
574 * New, faster (but limited) direct node access from lua, see
575 the manual for details
577 * Support for Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) information in
580 * Extended build script for mingw/msys (includes 64-bit support)
582 * Various patches from/via Akira Kakuta for better Win32
585 * Fixes for some bugs in de pdfscanner library (mostly related
588 * Maximum hyphenated word length is now 64Kb characters.
590 * Various patches from Khaled Hosny and Luigi Scarso for the
591 luafontloader subsystem
593 * Fix for a crash when re-dumping formats
595 * Fix for a Selene unicode library bug where some characters in
596 UTF-8 were incorrectly flagged as having the 'Space' property
600 ==============================================================
601 Luatex beta-0.76.0 was released 20130405
602 ==============================================================
606 * Small patches from TeXLive 2013, as well as an update to the
607 latest libraries (libpng, poppler, etc.)
609 * Speed up printing (of TeX strings) to the terminal and log.
611 * New lua function node.end_of_math().
613 * Fixed a memory leak in the lua function pdfscanner.scan().
615 ==============================================================
616 Luatex beta-0.75.0 was released 20130301
617 ==============================================================
621 * New expandable primitive \Uchar.
625 * New version of lnodelib.c with speedups by Hans and Luigi.
626 Also added some extra sanity checks to the Lua node field
629 * Support 'umath' in tex.extraprimitives(), so that formats can
630 make the \Umath* primitives unprefixed, now that they will be
631 provided by XeTeX as well.
633 * Removed a bunch of deprecated primitives
634 * \AlephVersion, \Alephrevision, \Alephversion, \Alephminorversion
635 * \OmegaVersion, \Omegarevision, \Omegaversion, \Omegaminorversion
636 * \omathcode, \odelcode, \omathchardef, \omathchar, \omathaccent,
637 \odelimiter, \oradical
638 * \Umathbotaccent, \Umathaccents
640 * Fix large file support.
642 * Fix Lua's loadfile().
644 * Removed the cidmap callbacks again (let that be done by user lua
645 code after the fact).
647 * Removed the fatal error on fonts where num_glyphs is too high,
648 as that problem is actually harmless.
650 * Some compilation issues under Win32 and Solaris resolved.
652 * Allow math extender objects to be zero width.
654 * The 'epdf' library has been extended to deal with finding and
655 saving embedded files (catalog:numEmbeddedFiles() and catalog:
656 embeddedFile, new EmbFile object).
658 ==============================================================
659 Luatex beta-0.74.0 was released 20121224
660 ==============================================================
665 There are no patches to the core Lua files; a future version
666 of luatex will switch to loading the regular lua 5.2 dynamic
667 library instead of depending on a statically compiled
670 * A bleeding-edge version of luasocket is included, as there
671 is no 5.2-compatible official release yet.
673 * A new lua extension is the two-argument version of
674 string.dump from Luajit:
676 string.dump(function f, [boolean strip])
680 * The implied existence of the following lua libraries is now
683 debug, unicode.*, luazip, lfs, lpeg, zlib, gzip, md5,
684 socket.*, profiler, epdf, fontloader, mplib, and
687 Future versions of luatex will load these modules on demand
688 from dynamic libraries.
690 Please update your sources to include a 'require' line for
691 each of the library modules mentioned.
693 * Two new callbacks: find_cidmap_file and load_cidmap_file
694 (used by the fontloader to discover .cidmaps)
696 ==============================================================
697 Luatex beta-0.72.0 was released 20121210
698 ==============================================================
702 * update various used libraries, including mplib 1.770,
703 poppler 0.21, libpng 1.5, and lpeg 0.10.2.
705 * new 'pdfscanner' lua library.
707 * various OpenType math fixes, including \Umathcharnumdef.
709 * improved placement of bottom accents.
711 * various other small fixes that have accumulated over the past
714 ==============================================================
715 Luatex beta-0.70.1 was released 20110519
716 ==============================================================
720 * fixed: recorder file location from TL (Akira).
722 * fixed: missing newline on 'No output' line.
724 * fixed: relative names in synctex file.
726 * fixed: 16bit png images in generated %!PDF-1.4.
728 * fixed: building with (installed) libpng < 1.5.0
730 * fixed: year in --version output.
732 * fixed: box output to synctex.
734 * fixed: FontDescriptor for non-embedded OpenType fonts has an
735 invalid FontFile3 entry (#654)
737 * fixed: crash on non-existent images.
739 * fixed: small memory leak in the ipc code.
741 * fixed: tex.print() and tex.sprint() don't recognize -2 as the
742 first argument (#659)
744 ==============================================================
745 Luatex beta-0.70.0 was released 20110506
746 ==============================================================
750 * fixed: various changes needed for libpng 1.5.2.
752 * fixed: node.fields() for nodes without subtype.
754 * fixed: non-argument use of os.execute().
756 * fixed: tex.[s|t|]print() with invalid catcode table arguments.
758 * fixed: recorder filename location with --output-directory.
760 * fixed: display alignment in TRT mode.
762 * luatex now uses the standard synctex files from Jérome Laurens.
765 ==============================================================
766 Luatex beta-0.66.0 was released 20110412
767 ==============================================================
771 * fixed: linebreak_filter doesn't do its default job when
772 tex.linebreak is used
774 * fixed: \escapechar ignored by \meaning
776 * fixed: wrong px default
778 * fixed: font kern attribute inheritance
780 * fixed: "nop" unrecognized in virtual fonts
782 * fixed: assertion failure in dviluatex when font ptmr8t used
784 * fixed: tex.settoks for with strings with embedded zeroes
786 * fixed: an indexing problem with nonexistent font glyphs
788 * fixed: some crashes and other bugs on the 'subtype' and 'prev'
789 fields (not all node types have those fields)
791 * fixed: crash on token.csname_id ("")
793 * fixed: initialize the statically allocated node's type ids
795 * fixed: fencepost error in math parameter counting
797 * fixed: math family numbers > 255 are allowed
799 * fixed: compilation failure on Hurd
801 * fixed: a small bug leading to displacements when reading
804 * fixed: \directlua followed by \pdfximage generates error if
807 * fixed: a problem with \vadjust pre in alignments
809 * fixed: a lua stack growing problem in the backend in 0.65.0,
810 resulting in an inability to create more than a few thousand
813 * fixed: inclusion of Scribus-generated pdfs
815 * adapt: the default form margin is now zero (was 1bp before)
817 * adapt: libpng 1.4.4, zzuplib 0.13.60, mplib 1.504
819 * adapt: small changes to the build system and new imports from
820 the texlive repository
822 * feature: new function node.currentattr() queries the current
823 active attribute list
825 * feature: Lua font loading; ignore unknown enumeration keys in
828 * feature: JPEG 2000 image support
830 * feature: continuing work on the 'epdf' library
832 * doc: the 'epdf' lua library is now documented
834 * doc: various other manual corrections
837 ==============================================================
838 Luatex beta-0.65.0 was released 20101213
839 ==============================================================
843 * The Aleph and Omega version primitives are deprecated.
845 * The Apple Snow Leopard Truetype font collections now work
848 * Libpng has been updated to 1.4.4, and zlib to 1.2.5.
850 * New lua functions node.next() and node.prev().
852 * The already deprecated for some time node.protrusion_skipable()
853 function has been removed.
855 * fontloader.apply_featurefile() and fontloader.apply_afmfile()
856 now return nil,<errortable> on failure.
858 * The various node list fields in the lua node interface have
859 been renamed from 'list' to 'head', e.g. tex.box[0].head,
860 and the 'list' name is deprecated. For now, the deprecation
861 is silent, as 'list' will stay for quite some time. Please
862 update your lua source as soon as possible, though.
864 * The call node.type(<node>) now returns "node". The existing
865 functionality is otherwise unchanged.
867 * Luafilesystem has been updated to 1.5.0. NOTE: there is an
868 incompatible change in the directory iterator method.
870 * The restriction on linebreak_filter has been eased: at least one
871 horizontal box should be returned, but that is not necessarily
872 the last node any more.
874 * Backward compatibility has been restored for \meaning\mathchar
876 * node.first_character() has been renamed to node.first_glyph()
877 to better match its actual functionality.
879 * The \Umathaccent primitive now supports both/bottom keywords,
880 and \Umathbotaccent / \Umathaccents are now deprecated.
882 * The \Umathaccent primitive now also supports the fixed keyword,
883 which supports non-growing math accents even if the font says
884 there are extensible variants.
886 * Ongoing work on the epdf library.
890 * Assignment to \dimen65535 was broken earlier.
892 * <box>.head.prev is now always initialized to null (0).
894 * luatex -lua=<script> '\relax' no longer exits immediately,
895 instead going into interactive mode as it should.
897 * The \jobname was initialized wrongly for input file names
898 with multiple dots in them.
900 * The synctex file is now written in the right place when
901 --output-directory is given.
903 * \letterspacefont could cause crashes, especially when combined
906 * Luatex would crash on linux32 systems if it was build in an
907 environment where LFS (>2GB files) was enabled by default.
909 * Node lists created by node.copy_list() could not be hyphenated
910 due to an assertion error.
912 * Synctex support was partially broken since 0.60.0.
914 * With OpenType math fonts, accents with multiple parts
915 (like the \vec arrow) forgot to include all parts if the
916 accentee was too narrow.
918 * With OpenType math fonts, accents over any class except 0 and 7
921 * kpse.lookup("plain", {all = true}) was broken in kpathsea
922 itself (no extension given as well as --all specified).
924 * A FontForge bug made Cambria Math accents look bad, and the
925 placement of math top accents did not allow a marker at the
926 origin (patches by Stefan Philipp)
928 * Cut&Paste from PDF was sometimes broken due to bad ToUnicode map.
930 * Many small manual improvements (thanks to Paul Isambert)
932 * An other bugfix to lpeg 0.9 (from Roberto Ierusalimsky)
934 * Some small fixes to writet1.w (from Han The Thanh)
936 * A build failure because of bad libz configuration on Win32
938 ==============================================================
939 Luatex beta-0.64.0 was released 20101112
940 ==============================================================
944 * New lua functions pdf.refobj(), pdf.maxobjnum() and pdf.objtype()
946 * New lua function node.is_node()
948 * The max_strings configuration variable's maximum value is
949 raised to be identical to texlive's maximum (2097151), and
950 same for param_size (32767).
952 * The embedded mplib is now 1.503.
954 * Minor cleanups in the output of fontloader.to_table():
956 - removed out-of-range altuni's from the output
957 - don't dump the extra encodings, just the actual font encoding
958 - export the encoding's name also as 'enc_name' at one level up
959 - no longer exporting unset macstyles, nor zero uniqueids
960 - fix creationtime and modification time
962 * Ongoing work on the epdf library
966 * Fix a bug where an explicit hyphen prevented hyphenation for the
967 whole rest of the paragraph
969 * Internal font copying forgot to copy the last font dimen
971 * os.selfdir() is now documented
973 * patch quad (\fontdimen6) in \letterspacefont to be compatible
976 * Multi-page pdf inclusion was very slow in 0.63.0
978 * Some extra checks added to the handling of glue_spec node
981 * Some node.prev pointers have been corrected (but this is not
984 * A small fix to lpeg 0.9.
987 ==============================================================
988 Luatex beta-0.63.0 was released 20100909
989 ==============================================================
993 * Drop tex.ht[], tex.wd[], tex.dp[].
995 * Drop OCP support (and associated primitives).
997 * Add tex.catcode[], tex.lccode[], tex.sfcode[], tex.uccode[],
998 tex.mathcode[] and tex.delcode[] and associated functions.
1000 * Add CIDset tables to the output pdf where appropriate.
1002 * Added a 'string' field to late_lua nodes on the lua side. This
1003 field does not convert the assigned string to a tokenlist.
1005 * The result of fontloader.open() now has some virtual accessors
1006 (as well as fontloader.to_table).
1008 * There is now a `short reference' in the manual folder
1013 * Fix a crash on an empty font (bugreport #468).
1015 * Fix a crash for extremely long pattern arguments.
1017 * Fix a crash on bad virtual character arguments in lua.
1019 * Fix hyphenation exceptions.
1021 * Prevent linebreak between initial local_par paragraph whatsit
1022 and a following skip (bugreport #437).
1024 * Fix placement of scripts on textstyle big operators in MATH
1025 fonts (bugreport #466).
1027 * Fix a crash on the return value of MPlib's 'postscript'
1028 operation on images.
1030 * Fix a crash on \leftghost & \rightghost in math mode.
1032 ==============================================================
1033 Luatex beta-0.62.0 was released 20100823
1034 ==============================================================
1038 * LuaTeX now uses libpoppler (0.12.4) instead of xpdf.
1040 * All backend functions now report what file they were searching
1041 for whenever a file cannot be found.
1043 * Input-ed lua files are now mentioned in the fls file if
1044 the --recorder switch is specified on the command line.
1046 * Paragraph indentation hlist nodes and hlist and vlist nodes
1047 generated by alignment rows and cells now have a subtype
1048 (3 for indent box, 4 for rows/columns, 5 for cells).
1050 * The 'epdf' lib is in active development and still growing.
1052 * The 'fontforge' table is finally removed (was deprecated
1057 * A new mplib import fixes two bad bugs in mplib:
1058 - string equality test was wrong
1059 - type declarations could delete pre-existing variables
1061 * PNG images with transparency could create random size
1062 differences in the generated PDF.
1064 * In some special cases, font expansion could cause wrong
1065 spacing in the generated PDF.
1067 * \letterspacefont was broken since a very long time.
1069 * The node subtype of the \leftskip and \rightskip glues was
1072 * Some memory leaks have been removed.
1074 * Various manual fixes.
1076 ==============================================================
1077 Luatex beta-0.61.0 was released 20100728
1078 ==============================================================
1082 * New lua library 'epdf' for introspection of PDF inclusions,
1083 see the manual for details.
1085 * Mplib version 1.502 is now included (which is still beta,
1088 * new "finish_pdffile" and "pre_dump" callbacks.
1090 * new function pdf.pageref()
1092 * In the lua 'tex' library: assignment to internal glue
1093 parameters is now allowed.
1095 * New lua function tex.error().
1099 * Fix for crashes on fonts with bad Panose values.
1101 * Fix for a box placement bug that could sometimes cause text
1104 * Fix for a few small PDF/A1-a compatibility bugs.
1106 * Fix \letterspacefont.
1108 * Fix \Ustopdisplaymath in combination with aligned displays.
1110 * In math delimiters, the last of a chain of predefined sizes
1111 was always ignored if there were also extensible parts.
1113 ==============================================================
1114 Luatex beta-0.60.2 was released 20100701
1115 ==============================================================
1119 * Various small portability fixes, especially for non-gcc
1122 * Updated synctex from Jerome Laurens.
1124 * fix bug #406: \pdfliteral hinders hyphenation.
1126 * fix pdf overprinting bug (related to \pdfliteral).
1128 * patch from Akira Kakuto that ensures that only absolute commands
1129 that are inside the %PATH% will be executed in win32's restricted
1132 * fix a buffer overflow in luafontloader.
1134 * fix cross-platform share-ability of generated formats.
1136 * fix a few typos in the manual.
1138 * fix trashing of the null glue spec by attribute reference code.
1140 * documented the deprecated state and brokenness of otp processing.
1143 ==============================================================
1144 Luatex beta-0.60.1 was released 20100428
1145 ==============================================================
1149 * renamed node.skipable() to node.skippable().
1151 * More git discovery patches in getluatexsvnversion.sh.
1153 * Added --warnings=[no|min|yes|max|all] option to build.sh.
1155 * While cross-compiling, build.sh now adds an extra linker switch
1156 to allow win32 exes to use 3G instead of 2G of virtual memory.
1160 * os.exec() & os.spawn() handled the environment differently from
1161 os.execute() on Win32 (patch from Tomek)
1163 * Builds with --enable-ipc were broken.
1165 * Assigning and acquiring \fontdimen s from TeX code was broken.
1167 * An initial attempt at fixing bug #372 (\predisplaydirection).
1169 * An attempt to fix \eqno/\leqno placements in mixed direction
1172 * Our local xpdf patch is reverted, it is not needed any more.
1174 * The os.selfdir variable was not documented, as well as broken
1177 * Fix "\input tikz hello \bye" bug, plus fix one sign error.
1179 * Fix handling of lua script files with UNC names.
1181 ==============================================================
1182 Luatex beta-0.60.0 was released 20100404
1183 ==============================================================
1187 * os.name now knows about CYGWIN (from Elie Roux)
1189 * Internal handling of direction specifiers is faster now.
1191 * Each glyph node now has three new virtual read-only fields:
1192 width, height, and depth (values in scaled points, of course)
1194 * There are new functions node.protrusion_skipable() and
1195 tex.badness() (useful for paragraph breaking in lua)
1197 * Also new: tex.linebreak(). See the manual for details.
1199 * All lua errors now report file and line numbers to aid in
1202 * Import of metapost 1.211.
1204 * pdf.pdfcatalog will be replaced soon by the new pdf.catalog
1205 pdf.pdfinfo will be replaced soon by the new pdf.info
1206 pdf.pdfnames will be replaced soon by the new pdf.names
1207 pdf.pdftrailer will be replaced soon by the new pdf.trailer
1209 * pdf.pdfmapfile and pdf.pdfmapline are replaced by the new
1210 pdf.mapfile() and pdf.mapline() functions. (a function interface
1211 fits these parameters better because they never return anything).
1213 * New read-write lua variables: pdf.pageattributes, pdf.pageresources,
1216 * getluatexsvnversion.sh now correctly detects git-svn and still
1217 manages to find a valid SVN revision number (from Patrick Gundlach)
1219 * Many of the source files have been converted to CWEB.
1223 * GNU libtool is now used to solve the various technical issues with
1224 dynamic loading of lua modules.
1226 * Error detection in scan_integer_part was wrong due to missing
1227 initialization of OK_so_far (spotted by Javier Mugica)
1229 * Synctex was broken in 0.51-0.52.
1231 * \lastlinefit was broken since ... well, nearly forever.
1233 * Reading of binary files with length zero was broken.
1235 * Trapping of unitialized rules (this was for sloppily created
1236 rule nodes from lua)
1238 * pdf.immediateobj('streamfile') was broken on 64-bit platforms.
1240 * tex.linebreak did not take the given left and right skip, but
1241 instead used the current TeX-side values (bug #356).
1243 * the found 'MAKE' command in build.sh is now fed into configure to fix
1244 problems with that not finding GNU make even when it is actually
1247 * dofile(<nil>) and loadfile(<nil>) in batch mode now give an
1248 error and continue instead of pointlessly waiting for user input.
1250 * Reverted commit #3417 (the buildpage experiment) as it causes bad
1251 things to happen when items are waiting during page breaks.
1253 * Overrule loaders[4] in --safer mode, make require() behave
1254 closer to normal lua 5.1, and add some nicer error messages
1255 (based on an email and patches from Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard)
1257 * Added an extra sanity check for GDEF loading in luafontloader,
1258 based on a crash caused by Linux' AkaashNormal.ttf.
1261 ==============================================================
1262 Luatex beta-0.52.0 was released 20100316
1263 ==============================================================
1267 * Various small manual improvements.
1269 * A better version of getluatexsvnversion.sh, from Tomek.
1271 * node.copy_list() now allows the second (optional) argument to
1274 * An import of the current state of the texlive repository
1275 (kpathsea and build system).
1279 * An attempt fix for bug #345 (math kerning is not perfect): when the
1280 current math font is a new math font, check against \catcode <cur_c>
1281 == 11 to suppress the italic correction, instead of looking at
1282 the value of space(<cur_f>).
1284 * There is a new <tfmtable> key: 'units_per_em' (defaults to 0).
1285 This is part of a fix for bug #200 (Problem with CFF fonts having
1286 em-size other than 1000): there is a special correction to the
1287 embedded cff font itself and the font scale if the font to be output
1288 is opentype or type1 in unicode encoding and the 'units_per_em
1290 <tfmtable>.units_per_em has to be passed back to luatex from
1291 the lua font loading code for this to work.
1293 * A fix for bug #314 (problem with pk file).
1295 * lua code can no longer change the internal preallocated glue_spec
1296 nodes (as that resulted in weird spacing bugs). For this, glue_specs
1297 now have a new field: 'writable'. If that field is false, a copy
1298 has to be made of the glue_spec instead of doing an assignment
1301 * Setting of \textdir inside the output routine could trash output
1302 on following pages due to a lingering internal variable.
1304 * \pdfthread crashed because the arguments were handled in reverse
1307 ==============================================================
1308 Luatex beta-0.51.0 was released 20100312
1309 ==============================================================
1313 * Various small manual improvements.
1314 * The backend message "cannot open Type 1 font file for reading"
1315 now reports which Type1 font it was looking for.
1316 * Fontforge clears some font names at loading time that will be
1317 refilled in at font generation time, but the fontloader should not
1318 do that. Patch from Khaled Hosny.
1319 * New synctex code imported from TeXLive.
1320 * luamd5/md5.h is renamed to luamd5/luamd5.h to avoid confusion.
1321 * Embedded mplib is now 1.209.
1322 * Some experimental tweaking of buildpage_filter, see the manual
1324 * Luatex now detects kfreebsd (from Alan Braslau)
1325 * The new lua function tex.sp() converts a string to a number
1326 representing scaled points.
1327 * There is now support for revision numbers in the banner and stats
1329 * The command line help and manual documentation page is extended.
1330 * node.hpack() now also accepts "cal_expand_ratio" and "subst_ex_font"
1332 * node.hpack() and node.vpack() now give back the badness of the box
1333 as second return value.
1334 * node.copy_list() now allows a second (stop) argument, this stopper
1336 * new lua functions in lfs: lfs.readlink() and lfs.shortname().
1337 * new lua function tex.tprint() that can combine multiple catcode
1338 regime prints in one function call.
1339 * new lua sub-table: tex.nest[] (read/write access to the semantic
1341 * New lua functions in kpse: kpse.lookup() and kpse.version(). See
1342 the manual for more details.
1343 * New lua function tex.shipout().
1347 * There problems in the pdf output for Type3 (pk) fonts.
1348 * Fix a bug that allowed bad commandline quoting.
1349 * Fix a bug that sometimes caused crashes when \pdfprotrudechars.
1350 * The build script now exports CONFIG_SHELL to avoid problems with
1352 * The was a bug in the generated /Image /ProcSet.
1353 * status.font_bytes reported the wrong value.
1354 * Lots of compiler warnings are removed (thanks Javier Mugica).
1355 * Patch to fontloader.info() to accept filenames with embedded
1357 * Fix a \write error with docstrip package.
1358 * Fixed a crash on AdobeMyungjoStd-Medium.otf.
1359 * Fix coco stack overflows, needed for lpeg.
1360 * \pdfcompresslevel wasn't initialized for early immediate objects.
1361 * Fix for slanted fonts when HZ was on (slant angle was multiplied).
1362 * When concatenating content streams, put a space between them.
1363 * Allow pfb lines to end with \r as well as \n (for msam10.pfb).
1364 * Fix the internal string->scaled point conversion in the lua
1366 * Memory leaks in the fontloader removed, thanks to patches from
1368 * Fix a crash caused by the combination of coroutines and font.each().
1372 * Support for Type3 .pgc files (nobody used them).
1374 ==============================================================
1375 Luatex beta-0.50.0 was released 20091224
1376 ==============================================================
1380 * Fonts now listen also to the 'extend' key in the lua font
1381 metrics table, and the processing for this is done via de
1382 pdf text matrix instead of via the font matrix, which means
1383 it now works for all font types.
1385 * The embedded Metapost library is now at version 1.209.
1389 * It is no longer possible for fonts from embedded pdf files
1390 to be replaced by / merged with the document fonts of the
1391 enveloping pdf. This regression may be temporary, depending
1392 on how the rewritten font backend will look after beta 0.60.
1396 * Use of \middle confused the \mathstyle operation.
1398 * \pdfcolorstack handling was broken.
1400 * node.unset_attribute() had a bug whereby it inverted the
1401 requested result in some cases (the node on which the unset
1402 was called was sometimes the only node at the current level
1403 that *kept* the attribute).
1405 * During font expansion, the internal font copy had one character
1406 information object less than the original, resulting in the
1407 disappearance of a glyph in some fonts when font expansion
1410 * Placement of operator scripts of OT MATH fonts is adjusted
1411 to be conformant with Word's logic where the italic correction
1412 is only used to tuck in the subscript and for nothing else.
1414 * luafontloader.open() no longer writes directly to stderr in
1415 case of internal font errors.
1417 * Any <pdf_refobj_node>.objnum could not be assigned to.
1419 * The lua 'pdf' table could not be assigned to.
1421 * The lua 'md5' library was returning incorrect results on
1422 64-bit architectures.
1424 * Luatex now compiles on GNU Hurd systems.
1426 * Fix segfault when embedding stream file object (these
1427 backend segfaults were a side-effect of the string pool
1430 ==============================================================
1431 Luatex beta-0.47.0 was released 20091218
1432 ==============================================================
1436 * New read-write lua variables pdf.pdfcatalog, pdf.pdfnames,
1437 pdf.pdfinfo, pdf.pdftrailer
1439 * The horizontal mode nodes that are added to lines during line
1440 breaking now inherit the attributes from the first and last node
1441 inside the created line.
1443 * The new function pdf.registerannot(<number>) registers an
1444 annotation object number to be included in the current
1445 page's /Annots list.
1447 * The variables <metrics>.Mathconstants.FractionDelimiterSize
1448 and <metrics>.Mathconstants.FractionDelimiterDisplayStyleSize
1449 are added to the font table. This allows proper setting of the
1450 size parameters for TeX's ...withdelims math primitives.
1452 * The internal representation of the string pool is reorganized
1453 (the pool of string characters is now allocated dynamically),
1454 and as a side-effect the lua variable status.init_pool_ptr
1455 is deprecated and will be removed in a later version. Also,
1456 status.pool_ptr now simply returns the current number of bytes
1457 in use for string characters.
1459 * There are new lua variables pdf.pdfmapline and pdf.pdfmapfile
1460 (write-only strings that mimic \pdfmapline and \pdfmapfile).
1462 * \pdfobj data and attribute are now stored as C strings instead
1463 of as token lists (this should speed up cases with a lot of data).
1465 * Artificially slanted fonts now work via the pdf text matrix
1466 (instead of adjusting the actual font) so that it now also
1467 works for non-Type1 fonts. The lua <metrics>.slant font key is
1468 now obeyed in all cases.
1470 * The lua function font.id(<string>) returns the internal font id
1471 number belonging to a control sequence name.
1473 * Pdf image inclusion is optimized such that objects from an
1474 external pdf will now be included only once even if they are
1475 referenced from multiple inclusions.
1479 * Protrusion for non-TLT documents did not work properly for
1480 the hyphenation character.
1482 * \lastbox could not remove the paragraph indent box for non-TLT
1485 * Pdf images (\pdfximage) are no longer kept open during the
1486 whole run, but closed and reopened. An error is raised if
1487 the file has changed between \pdfximage and \pdfrefximage.
1488 This prevents the 'too many open files' error when lots of
1489 images are included.
1491 * On Win32 Pdf image files are locked during the time that it is
1492 open, to prevent unnoticed file changes by external sources.
1494 * Compilation now again works on FreeBSD.
1496 * Format sharing between 32-bit and 64-bit architectures was
1499 * Unsetting attributes from lua could sometimes result in
1500 the unset state persisting beyond the current group level.
1502 * If something went wrong in the scanning of pdf action items,
1503 the error message reported the current primitive name
1506 * Luatex would crash on non-existant pdfs that were referenced
1507 from map file entries.
1509 ==============================================================
1510 Luatex beta-0.46.0 was released 20091126
1511 ==============================================================
1515 * The build.sh script now has better support for new MacOSX-es
1518 * Luatex now has experimental support for dynamic loading of
1519 external compiled lua libraries. Building luatex and loading
1520 external .so/.dll files is reported to work on Windows,
1521 linux and osx, other platforms are still unknown.
1523 * pdf.obj{type="stream"} no longer converts its argument to and
1524 from a tokenlist. This allows the use of binary data in the
1525 "string" argument. Such data does still have to hidden from
1526 the normal file parser by putting the code in a dofile()
1527 or by using string.char(), though.
1531 * Luatex 0.45.0 was not able to find truetype nor opentype fonts
1532 if there were no callbacks defined (patch from Pawel).
1534 * 0.45.0 printed the user input instead of the full pathname
1535 for \input-ed tex files.
1537 * The TFM reader now rejects fonts with tfm names that are
1538 longer than 255 characters because such font names cannot
1539 be stored in a DVI file.
1541 * The combination of \immediate\pdfxform followed by a later
1542 \pdfrefxform could cause broken pdf output files because
1543 the box used for the form could have been freed and even
1544 reused already at that moment in time, sometimes resulting
1545 in an invalid transformation matrix.
1547 * The placement of super- and subscripts for displaystyle
1548 \int's in CambriaMath is now better than before. It still
1549 needs a tweak to the metrics though: in the current version,
1550 the italic correction has to be substracted from the width
1551 of the integral sign to get correct placement (context mkiv
1552 does this). to be continued ...
1554 ==============================================================
1555 Luatex beta-0.45.0 was released 20091118
1556 ==============================================================
1560 * Loading big OTF fonts via lua is now much faster than before,
1561 at the expense of a bit of precision loss in the calculated
1564 * Two new token lists are provided: \pdfxformresources and
1565 \pdfxformattr, as an alternative to \pdfxform keywords.
1567 * \input and \openin now accept braced filenames.
1569 * The \endlinechar can now be set to any value between 0 and 127.
1571 * Luatex can now optionally use kpathsea to find lua require()
1574 * The new primitives \aligntab and \alignmark are aliases for
1575 the use of & and # in alignments.
1577 * \pdfrefximage [width <dimen>] [height <dimen>] [depth <dimen>] <imageref>
1578 overrules settings from \pdfximage for this \pdfrefximage call only
1580 * The print precision for small numbers in lua code (tostring)
1583 * Akira Kakuto suppled a patch that restricts writing to files
1584 with names such as latex.bat etc. (on windows only)
1586 * (un-feature): from now on luatex now only handles 4 direction
1587 specifiers: TLT (latin), TRT (arabic), RTT (cjk), and LTL
1588 (mongolian). The other directions now generate an error.
1590 * (un-feature): xpdf's automatic lower- and uppercasing retry attempts
1591 for nonfound image pdf files has been removed.
1593 * The callbacks hpack_filter, vpack_filter and pre_output_filter
1594 pass on an extra string argument for the direction, when known
1595 (nil == use default).
1597 * The lua functions node.hpack(), node.vpack() and node.dimensions()
1598 now accept an optional direction argument (not given == use default).
1600 * \pdfrefxform [width <dimen>] [height <dimen>] [depth <dimen>] <formref>
1601 scales a form object; similar principle as with \pdfximage: depth alone
1602 doesn't scale, it shifts vertically.
1604 * A change to the relative ordering inside font name discovery for use
1605 by the backend: now it tries <f>.psname first, as that is much less
1606 likely to contain spaces.
1608 * For ttc fonts, now the used subfont name and its index id are printed
1609 to the terminal, and if the backend cannot find a ttc subfont, the
1614 * Prevent crashes for lua-loaded fonts without a (tfm) name.
1616 * Remove spurious newlines in the output pdf that could be the
1617 result of using \pdfximage for an included pdf figure too early.
1619 * Full font embedding for wide otf and ttf fonts now really
1620 works (older versions only pretended that it did work).
1622 * node.dimensions() sometimes continued past the 'stop' node.
1624 * Images inside virtual fonts were broken.
1626 * The processing of \language=-1 was wrong, resulting in
1627 hyphenation attempts even though there was no proper language
1630 * Fix for finding files in --output-directory.
1632 * Fix for handling of --file-line-error.
1634 * tex.box[] assingments are now checked to make sure the assigned
1635 node has the right id (hlist or vlist).
1637 * show_node_list (as in \showbox) produced spurious local_par
1638 whatsit prints in the output after direction nodes.
1640 * The handling of pdf literals has been sped up.
1642 ==============================================================
1643 Luatex beta-0.44.0 was released 20091027
1644 ==============================================================
1648 * libpng is now 1.2.40.
1650 * hlist nodes now have a subtype to distinguish hlists generated
1651 by the paragraph breaking, explicit \hbox commands, and other
1652 (as-yet-undefined) sources.
1654 * \pdfobj now has an extra optional keyword: 'uncompressed',
1655 which forces the object to be written to the PDF in plain
1656 text (see the manual for the exact details).
1658 * The lua file from the luamd5 library (which provides the
1659 md5.hexsuma() function) is now embedded in the executable.
1663 * \latelua now works in DVI mode again.
1665 * status.output_file_name could crash when used too soon.
1667 * In 0.43, rules were not output at all in DVI mode.
1669 * \leavevmode\penalty-10000\penalty-10000 crashed luatex.
1671 * the API of margin kern nodes to lua was using the wrong
1672 fields in the nodes.
1674 * A few fixes to the manual.
1676 * PDF Xref stream dicts were slightly non-conformant.
1678 * There was too much space between two consecutive math displays
1679 (this bug was inherited from Aleph)
1681 * Synctex was broken (thanks, Akira)
1683 * Font mark classes were handled incorrectly by the fontloader
1686 * There was a crash possible with certain types of named PDF
1689 * Math delimiters and large operators in new MATH fonts no
1690 longer apply the italic correction (this fixes placements
1691 of super- and subscripts on such items for those fonts).
1693 * The converter from lua strings to token lists (for the node
1694 interface) sometimes generated invalid tokens.
1696 * CFF (OpenType) fonts now listen to 'embedding="full"'. TTF
1699 * Font tables with 'embedding="no"' would cause luatex to crash.
1701 * \pdfobj file {} failed to find the file if there was no lua
1704 * An optimization in MS Mincho caused luatex to crash.
1706 ==============================================================
1707 Luatex beta-0.43.0 was released 20090819
1708 ==============================================================
1712 * There is a new allowed key in the table trhat is returned
1713 by lua-loaded fonts: <f>.psname. This value should be set
1714 to the original PostScript font name of the font. Fonts inside
1715 dfont and ttc collections are fetched using this field
1716 (if it is missing, <f>.fullname will be used instead).
1718 * It is now possible to use Apple dfont font files
1719 (those that contain at least one outline font).
1721 * \latelua is now allowed inside leaders.
1723 * There is a new callback: process_output_buffer, from Manuel
1724 Pégourié-Gonnard. This callback is called just before
1725 \write acts, so it can be used to alter the file encoding
1726 of text output files.
1728 * There is a new node.dimensions() function, which calculates
1729 the natural size of (part of) a list of nodes.
1731 * The new primitive \gleaders provides 'globally aligned'
1734 * The DVI and PDF backends now share much code internally.
1736 * The embedded MPlib is now 1.207.
1738 * libpng is now 1.2.39.
1742 * We fixed lots of anonymous bugs introduced in 0.42.0 (as expected)
1744 * fontloader.info() errors are no longer fatal, the function now
1745 just returns a nil,"error string" pair.
1747 * Automatically inserted kerns for \accents are now once again
1748 valid word ends, as in \TEX.
1750 * Fixed the placement of math displays in mixed direction
1753 * The \pdfcompresslevel is now dynamic again.
1755 ==============================================================
1756 Luatex beta-0.42.0 was released 20090717
1757 ==============================================================
1759 * There is a new node.tail() function
1761 * lua-loaded fonts now support a 'nomath' key to speed up
1762 loading the lua table.
1764 * A bugfix in the ttf reader for the inclusion backend, and
1765 (also in the backend) support for treating ttc files by
1766 pretending they are single ttf fonts (both patches from pdftex)
1768 * Add Khaled Hosny's man page to the repository
1770 * The \pdfcompresslevel is now effectively fixed as soon as
1771 output to the pdf file has occurred.
1773 * Patched status.filename so that it (nearly) always returns a
1776 * fix '\the\delcode' and disable '\the\odelcode', '\the\Udelcode',
1777 and '\the\Udelcodenum'
1779 * Handle jfifs where either xres or yres is 0 and the other
1780 res is != 0 (from pdftex)
1782 * The single-argument version of lang.hyphenate() was broken.
1784 * Get rid of the \directlua/\latelua number warning.
1786 * The Lua coroutine patch (coco) is now disabled on linux
1787 powerpc architectures (because it caused crashes)
1789 * Removed obsolete pdftex primitives:
1790 \pdfoptionalwaysusepdfpagebox
1791 \pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel
1795 * The loading speed of large fonts (especially ttf) via the
1796 fontloader library, and the inclusion speed for subsetting
1797 in the backend have both been improved.
1799 * The 'pdf' lua library has been enhanced with various new
1800 functions, see the manual for details.
1802 * BLT and BRT glyph position fixed.
1804 * Various fixes for synctex offsets.
1806 * Support for exotic font string encodings has been removed
1807 from the fontloader library.
1809 * The embedded MPlib is now 1.205.
1811 * libpng is now 1.2.38.
1813 ==============================================================
1814 Luatex beta-0.40.6 was released 20090625
1815 ==============================================================
1817 * Fix two string vs. toks bugs in the lua node interface:
1818 whatsit,annot and whatsit,startlink data assignments were
1819 made directly as strings instead of being converted to tokens.
1821 * Sometimes pdf.print() could be used before the proper structures
1824 * There was a bug in the type codes for the lua package filter
1825 callback: wrong extra info was passed to lua for the alignment
1828 * The math parameters \Umathlimitdownvgap, \Umathlimitdownbgap,
1829 and \Umathlimitdownkern have been renamed to \Umathlimitbelowbgap,
1830 \Umathlimitbelowvgap, and \Umathlimitbelowkern to be more
1831 consistent with the other parameter names.
1833 * The embedded MPlib is now 1.204.
1835 * Handling of UTF-8 hyphenation exceptions has been fixed.
1837 * There were a number of typos in the manual.
1839 ==============================================================
1840 Luatex beta-0.40.5 was released 20090610
1841 ==============================================================
1843 * One of the internal print functions accidentally encoded its
1844 argument string to UTF-8 even though it was already UTF-8.
1846 * Some of the log and terminal UTF-8 output was gibberish.
1848 ==============================================================
1849 Luatex beta-0.40.4 was released 20090609
1850 ==============================================================
1852 * \the\textfont0 returned a number instead of doing a font
1855 * The embedded MPlib is now 1.203.
1857 ==============================================================
1858 Luatex beta-0.40.3 was released 20090608
1859 ==============================================================
1861 * A set of portability fixes for the AIX compiler from Vladimir
1864 * A set of fixes to the synctex support.
1866 * A patch to the build script to prevent installed X11 headers
1867 from being required.
1869 * Some weave (web syntax) fixes from Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard.
1871 * A simplification in luatex.ch (it is now less verbose
1872 about the web2c-specific extensions) from Karl Berry.
1874 * A fix in the handling of UTF-8 (input) file names.
1876 * Hyphenation exceptions were case sensitive in 0.40.2.
1878 * libpng is now 1.2.37.
1880 ==============================================================
1881 Luatex beta-0.40.2 was released 20090603
1882 ==============================================================
1884 * Fix for a compilation warning under Cygwin.
1886 * A complicated bugfix by Hartmut for a rounding problem in the
1887 VF loading that resulted in 'character width mismatch in font
1888 XY.vf ignored' messages at large load sizes
1890 * The embedded MPlib is now 1.202.
1892 * The post_page_number callback was accidentally run when
1893 shipping out xforms as well as during actual pages.
1895 * When a math accent char doesn't have a bot_accent placer,
1896 luatex now uses the top_accent placer, if present.
1898 * A crash caused by \Uroot .. {<list>}{...} is fixed
1900 * A portability fix for solaris 8 sparc using sun studio
1901 compiler, and one for glibc > 2.9.90
1903 * luatex -ini now sets the \catcode of the BOM character to
1906 * Kpathsea is updated from TeXLive, giving four extra types of
1907 searchable files: 'font feature files','cid maps','mlbib',
1910 * libpng is now 1.2.36
1912 ==============================================================
1913 Luatex beta-0.40.1 was released 20090508
1914 ==============================================================
1916 * Vertical placement of root radicals and degrees is fixed.
1918 * The use of \pageleftoffset could deviate from \hoffset
1921 * LuaTeX now issues a warning if \pagedir !- \bodydir during
1924 * The previous crash in font.read_tfm() was still not quite
1927 * The Web2C version is now also printed in the --version
1928 and --credits output.
1931 * There is a new MPlib 1.200 release candidate with a few minor
1934 * The xpdf library is updated to patch level 3.
1936 * New imports to the build system, from texlive. In particular,
1937 there is now configure-level support for building with
1938 libpoppler and support for building under cygwin 1.7 is added.
1940 ==============================================================
1941 Luatex beta-0.40.0 was released 20090422
1942 ==============================================================
1944 * The embedded MPlib is updated to version 1.200.
1946 * Texlua would crash if run font.read_tfm() was used.
1948 * Luatex would crash on empty \patterns.
1950 * Lots of small C code cleanups.
1952 * \textdir inside a \hbox dir *** was wrong earlier.
1954 * 0.39.0 introduced a bug that would make luatex crash whenever
1955 font expansion was used.
1957 * Font tables returned by define_font can now have a key named
1958 'cache' that controls the internal lua font table caching.
1960 * There is no longer a need for an explicit --progname if there
1961 is no input file given.
1963 ==============================================================
1964 Luatex beta-0.39.0 was released 20090415
1965 ==============================================================
1967 * iniluatex will from now on start up with only the TeX82 primitives
1968 and \directlua, everything else has to be bootstrapped via
1969 tex.enableprimitives(). This change was planned for 0.40.0,
1970 but *now* is the time to test it.
1972 * A bugfix for \primitive in various expandable contexts,
1973 and \primitive now generates an error message when the
1974 argument is not actually a primitive's name.
1976 * There was a bug found in the math accent handling.
1978 * Large math operators are now treated like extensible characters
1979 in the sense that they can be composed of segments.
1981 * The extra assign- and restore tracing information from eTeX
1982 had a massive bug because of a dangling else in the pascal web.
1983 As a side-effect of fixing this bugs, all such potential errors
1984 in the pascal web have been fixed (for now).
1986 * The math parameters can now be set and queried from lua code
1987 via the new tex.setmath() and tex.getmath() functions.
1989 * Reflection in a \hbox was broken.
1991 * There was a leak of direction nodes in the paragraph builder.
1993 * The font backend now does a small peek to differentiate
1994 truetype and postscript style opentype fonts. This fixes
1995 the "Can't find CFF table" bug for otf's with truetype outlines.
1997 * Parameters and registers can now also be assinged to globally
1998 from lua (see the manual for details).
2000 * It is now possible to query the current math style while a
2001 formula is still being constructed by using the new read-only
2002 value \mathstyle. Associated is the new command \Ustack that
2003 is to be used as a prefix for {.. \over ..} and friends.
2004 See the manual for more information.
2006 * The embedded MPLib is brought up to date with the current
2007 metapost repository (version 1.110 and a few small patches).
2009 * Luatex can now handle two breakpoints inside a single ligature
2010 (like for the functional word of-f-ice). The solution is not
2011 perfect yet, but the chance of missed hyphenation points in
2012 actual documents should now be negligible.
2014 * Some speedups in the font loading code, and in the handling of
2015 pdf_literal nodes that are set from within Lua code.
2017 * Some source code and manual cleanup, as usual.
2019 ==============================================================
2020 Luatex beta-0.38.0 was released 20090410
2021 ==============================================================
2023 * tex.enableprimitives() had a bug were previously defined (but
2024 currently undefined) control sequences prevented the creation
2027 * The special calling format callback.register('name', false)
2028 not only disables the callback, but also the builtin code it
2029 is supposed to replace.
2031 * Empty \localleftbox and \localrightbox -es are now suppressed.
2033 * Support for <f>.MathConstants.SubscriptShiftDownWithSuperscript
2034 was added, to solve the lack of "sub2" in OpenType math.
2036 * Luatex now supports horizontal super- and subscript placement
2037 corrections via the OpenType MATH mathkern table. See the
2040 * node.write() no longer copies its argument node list before
2043 * There are six new primitives that are verbose forms
2044 of one and two byte special tokens:
2045 \Usuperscript \Usubscript
2046 \Ustartmath \Ustopmath
2047 \Ustartdisplaymath \Ustopdisplaymath
2049 * The attribute node leaks in math mode and alignmetns have been
2052 * The 11 simple math noads are now combined into a single "noad"
2055 * Static linking against libstdc++ is working once again.
2057 * There is a small fix in the keyword scanner to solve the
2058 problem of 'Runaway ... while scanning ???' that could happen
2059 for some primitives.
2061 * Lua now also has the "architecture independent bytecode"
2064 * Lua is updated to version 5.1.4 with coco patches 1.1.5, and
2067 * Some TRT/TLT backend bugs are fixed.
2069 * Various manual updates.
2071 ==============================================================
2072 Luatex beta-0.37.0 was released 20090331
2073 ==============================================================
2075 * Luatex now implements shell_escape = 'p', a new feature
2076 in web2c that intends to make \write18 more secure. As
2077 a side-effect, if luatex is used for typesetting, it will
2078 now also apply shell_escape = 'p' and shell_escape = 'f'
2079 to the lua functions io.popen(), os.execute(), os.exec(),
2081 Nothing has changed for the case where luatex is used as
2082 a script interpreter.
2084 * Attributes can now have negative values. The special value
2085 for 'unset' is lowered to -0x7FFFFFFF (it used to be -1).
2087 * The lua 'kpse' library now has an object-oriented interface
2088 as companion to the procedural interface. This is useful for
2089 e.g. controlling the discovery of mplib files.
2091 * The new internal integer parameter \outputbox allows setting
2092 of the output box number (default: 255, max: 65535)
2094 * The new primitives \Udelimiterunder and \Udelimiterover
2095 complete the set of 'StretchStacks' for OpenType Math.
2097 * Fixed a bug in font string conversions on the Macintosh that
2098 resulted in warnings about 'unaligned pointers being freed'.
2100 * Khaled Hosny spotted a bunch of manual errors.
2102 * There was bug in the width of math_accent objects when
2103 there were super- or subscripts attached to the accentee.
2105 * In PDF mode, TRT \leaders were bugged.
2107 * The source tree now uses the new texlive build system that
2108 Peter Breitenlohner created.
2110 * There is now a single build.sh instead of four separate
2111 ones. It has a few options:
2112 --make : only make, no make distclean; configure
2113 --parallel : make -j 2 -l 3.0
2114 --nostrip : do not strip binary
2115 --mingw : crosscompile for mingw32 from i386-linux
2116 --ppc : crosscompile for ppc osx on intel osx
2118 Note: --parallel still sometimes causes crashes due to
2119 timing errors, so use that option with care.
2121 * Many compiler warnings have been removed (but not all yet).
2123 ==============================================================
2124 Luatex beta-0.36.0 was released 20090323
2125 ==============================================================
2127 * The included fontforge code is stripped considerably, and
2128 the lua table to access the code is renamed to 'fontloader'.
2129 The old name ('fontforge') will remain present for a while,
2130 but will eventually go away.
2132 * New lua functions: tex.primitives(), tex.extraprimitives,
2133 tex.enableprimitives(). This is a prelude to a big change
2134 in the next beta: iniluatex will from now on start up with
2135 only the TeX82 primitives and \directlua, everything else
2136 has to be bootstrapped via tex.enableprimitives().
2137 See the manual for more details.
2139 * Support for multiple lua states has been removed, and at the
2140 same time support for adding name ids to lua chunks has been
2141 added. See the manual for more details.
2143 * More changes to the PDF backend to make it support non-latin
2144 directions (form and image placement, vertical typesetting,
2147 * The kpathsea library is updated. Highlights: cleaner build
2148 process (thanks to Peter Breitenlohner), cleaner mingw32
2149 (cross)compilation support, and a new reentrant API.
2151 * Some possible endless loops within extended delimiters in
2152 math mode are now trapped.
2154 * Movements inside VF font characters were considerably off
2155 due to a wrong conversion routine.
2157 * Error handling for \outer has been reinstated, but can be
2158 suppressed via the new primitive \suppressoutererror.
2160 * The new primitives: \suppresslongerror and \suppressifcsnameerror
2161 that can be used to suppress errors for \par in non-long macros
2162 and for non-expandable objects inside \ifcsname ... \endcsname,
2165 * New lua function: node.vpack() via a patch from Khaled Hosny
2166 that also improves error handling in node.hpack().
2168 * Fix the typo that caused \charic (instead of \charit)
2169 to be defined as a primitive.
2171 * Suppression of hyphenation via \hyphenchar\font=-1 now works
2174 * The lua functions tex.print(), tex.sprint(), tex.write() now
2175 accept an array of strings as well as vararg list of strings
2178 * A change to be build process: luatex.p is no longer split
2179 int smaller pieces before running the C compiler.
2181 * Melissa O'Neill contributed a bugfix to the Type1 font
2184 * A bunch of smaller bugfixes and cleanups (as usual).
2186 ==============================================================
2187 Luatex beta-0.35.0 was released 20090224
2188 ==============================================================
2190 * The math handling portions of LuaTeX are converted to C code,
2191 and extended to support Unicode math. There are a great many
2192 related changes, see the new Math chapter in the manual for
2195 * A nasty bug in the paragraph breaking routine was fixed.
2196 (All lines except the first one were believed to be wider then
2197 they really were. This affected which nodes were considered
2198 as active breakpoints)
2200 * Various changes to the PDF backend to make it support non-latin
2203 * Fixed the behaviour of the page offsets. Placement of the output
2204 on the physical page should now work correctly in all directions,
2205 both in DVI and PDF.
2206 There now are \pageleftoffset and \pagetopoffset primitives,
2209 * fontforge.apply_featurefile() was broken since 0.31.0
2211 * The lua profiler library is added.
2213 * The included lua filesystem library is now 1.4.1.
2215 * Reading of pk files fixed.
2217 * An optional space afer a <direction specifier> for \textdir c.s.
2218 is ignored from now on.
2220 * \bodydir and \pagedir can now be (re)set even after the first
2221 page has been output.
2223 * The new callback mlist_to_hlist can be used to intercept the
2224 normal conversion of math lists to horizontal lists.
2226 * The programs ttf2afm and pdftosrc are removed from the luatex
2227 distribution (these belong to pdftex).
2229 * fontforge.open() now uses much less memory when opening large
2232 * The included libpng is now 1.2.35.
2234 * Quite a lot of smaller bugfixes and cleanups (as usual).
2237 ==============================================================
2238 Luatex beta-0.31.3 was released 20081229
2239 ==============================================================
2241 This release has a bunch of updates from the development trunk
2242 (#1657-1670,1677,1678,1680,1685,1687).
2244 * Closing of files opened by \externalocp.
2246 * Fix for a locale-related bug that make PDF generation fail
2247 with a "Parsing CFF Dict failed" message when including
2250 * The included metapost is now version 1.102.
2252 * PDF rules in vertical modes in RL direction where output
2253 in the wrong direction
2255 * Fix for a crash on Apple fonts that contain a 'bsln' table.
2257 * The handling of the second argument to fontforge.open() was
2260 * The included libpng is now 1.2.34
2262 * Handling of ttc files on Windows was broken
2265 ==============================================================
2266 Luatex beta-0.31.2 was released 20081209
2267 ==============================================================
2269 Besides fixing building issues, this release has
2271 * A small fix for a crash that could happen when using
2274 * A fix in the format of fontforge.to_table output.
2275 (In 0.31.1 <font>.lookups was near-empty; the lookups
2276 were accidentally output as part of the gpos table).
2278 ==============================================================
2279 Luatex beta-0.31.1 was released 20081209
2280 ==============================================================
2282 fixed a bunch of compilation errors on various platforms, but
2283 with no other visible changes.
2286 ==============================================================
2287 Luatex beta-0.31.0 was released 20081205
2288 ==============================================================
2290 This is just an intermediate release so that some testing can be
2291 done on the updated fontforge embedding.
2293 * There are new fields being generated by fontforge.to_table(),
2294 and one or two old ones have been removed. These fields are /
2295 will be documented in the manual, but very briefly:
2297 - MATH table and associated information are now exported
2298 (the main reason for the new fontforge code)
2299 - Baseline data is now exported
2300 (perhaps usable in lua code)
2301 - Multiple Master / Glyph variation data is now exported
2302 (but useless, for now)
2303 - Mac Feature (AAT) information is now exported
2304 (perhaps usable in lua code)
2305 - If (lookup) names were saved via the PfED table, these
2306 will the exported instead of the default, generated names.
2307 (as requested by Yannis)
2309 * dfont is now treated as an archive format just like ttc
2310 when it comes to fontforge.info(). NOTE: that does not mean you
2311 can actually use them, because the backend doesn't know
2312 yet how to embed dfont fonts in the PDF, that is on the
2313 TODO list for the next big beta (0.40.0).
2315 * The executables are a lot larger than before. That is because
2316 much more of fontforge is included than before. Likely this
2317 will stay this way, because this makes upgrading the ff code
2318 much easier, and it means that luatex/FF potentially
2319 understands more font formats (after upgrading the backend,
2323 ==============================================================
2324 Luatex beta-0.30.3 was released 20081128
2325 ==============================================================
2327 This release fixes a really big bug, a few smaller ones,
2328 and has updates of png and mplib:
2330 * All hyphenation patterns that were anchored at the start or
2331 end of a word were ignored in luatex versions 0.25.X and 0.30.X
2332 (and possibly even earlier).
2334 * Repeated use of \language=-1 could result in "There is not room
2335 for another language".
2337 * The lua true coroutines patch (Coco) is now disabled on OpenBSD
2338 running on non-intel platforms.
2340 * The lua socket library is patched so that it will now compile on
2343 * Luatex now has libpng 1.2.33 and mplib 1.100
2345 ==============================================================
2346 Luatex beta-0.30.2 was released 20081020
2347 ==============================================================
2349 * The Lua coco change from 0.30.1 is reverted as it gave
2350 trouble on MacOSX. Lua coco on non-intel OpenBSD platforms
2351 is now explicitly turned off.
2353 * The lua file reading speedup in 0.30.1 broke reading of
2354 files larger than 100MB.
2356 * Reading of font-related files was broken when there was a find
2357 callback, but no read callback.
2359 * The texmf.cnf array size setup values were ignored whenever
2360 --lua was given on the commandline (instead of only when
2361 texconfig.kpse_init is set to false).
2363 * glyphs with negative widths resulted in incorrect horizontal
2364 placement (overlapping) of the string in the output PDF.
2366 * Using \latelua could sometimes result in an invalid output PDF,
2367 and the argument token list was expanded too early
2369 * There was a read buffer overrun in the mapfile parser
2371 * There are two new variables in the status table:
2372 status.callbacks and status.indirect_callbacks (execution counts).
2374 ==============================================================
2375 Luatex beta-0.30.1 was released 20081009
2376 ==============================================================
2378 * Invalid return values from the linebreak_filter callback
2379 are now handled gracefully (was crashing)
2380 * a preinstalled ctangle is no longer needed except when
2382 * In 0.30.0, the .notdef fix was incorrectly applied to
2383 truetype / opentype fonts.
2384 * A bunch of all memory leaks is fixed
2385 * In lua, f:read('*a') now uses signicantly less memory
2386 * The number of \catcodetables is now limited to 64KB
2388 * Luatex could crash if there were PDF images with and
2389 without page /Group included on the same page
2390 * Lua coco now always uses setjmp (for OpenBSD compatibility)
2391 * The embedded mplib is updated to the latest svn version
2392 * # marks (characters with catcode 6) are no longer doubled
2394 * Handling the nul character (U+0000) with catcode 13
2396 * Luatex could crash on win32 with an access violation
2397 because there was one predefined language too few
2398 (the one matching \language=-1)
2400 ==============================================================
2401 Luatex beta-0.30.0 was released 20080930
2402 ==============================================================
2406 * Readable \tex internal params that are counts, attrs, or dimens are
2407 now returned as numbers instead of strings, and skips as node objects.
2408 Read-write access to tex's skip registers added: tex.skip[0] etc.
2409 * new callback: 'linebreak_callback' to replace the internal paragraph
2411 * the tex table now supports more readable 'convert' values:
2412 tex.fontname, tex.pdffontname, tex.pdffontobjnum, tex.pdffontsize,
2413 tex.uniformdeviate, tex.number, tex.romannumeral, tex.pdfpageref,
2414 tex.pdfxformname (each takes a number as argument)
2415 * new readable parameter: tex.fontidentifier(number) returns the
2416 \csname associated with that font id
2417 * luatex now outputs \FONT<nr> instead of \^^@ in Overfull/Underfull
2418 messages if the font's id text is zero (like for expanded fonts) (#77)
2419 * luatex --version is split into --version and --credits
2420 * There is now (again) an svn revision number in luatex --version (#91)
2421 * Add support for more read-only internal access from lua:
2422 tex.lastpenalty, tex.lastkern, tex.lastskip, tex.lastnodetype,
2423 tex.inputlineno, tex.badness, tex.pdftexversion, tex.pdflastobj,
2424 tex.pdflastxform, tex.pdflastximage, tex.pdflastximagepages,
2425 tex.pdflastannot, tex.pdflastxpos, tex.pdflastypos, tex.pdfrandomseed,
2426 tex.pdflastlink, tex.luatexversion, tex.Alephversion,
2427 tex.Omegaversion, tex.Alephminorversion, tex.Omegaminorversion,
2428 tex.eTeXminorversion, tex.eTeXversion, tex.currentgrouplevel,
2429 tex.currentgrouptype, tex.currentiflevel, tex.currentiftype,
2430 tex.currentifbranch, tex.pdflastximagecolordepth (#81)
2431 * the old --src-specials are replaced by --synctex (#63)
2432 * the \expanded primitive is backported from pdftex 1.50 (#43)
2433 * luatex now comes with libpng 1.2.32
2434 * experimental: tex.definefont(string, number) associates a
2435 csname string with a font id number
2437 Bugs fixed compared to 0.29.0:
2439 * dashes were exported wrongly by MPlib
2440 * multi-item \discretionaries were broken in various ways (#78, mailinglist)
2441 * read_font_info was sometimes called recursively from lua-loaded
2443 * do_vf was sometimes called on lua-loaded fonts that where
2444 already known to be virtual
2445 * trailing junk in tfm files is now ignored (needed for ecrm fonts)
2446 * pdf_ignored_dimen was initialized too late, breaking \prevdepth
2447 handling and causing output lines to overlap eachother (#72)
2448 * pdf.immediateobj() had a printf-related bug
2449 * the fontname terminal logging is fixed for strange font file names
2450 * lua tex array assignments now listen to the globaldefs setting
2451 (tex.count[0] etc) (#92,partial)
2452 * \parshape was broken (#70)
2453 * there is no longer a ".tex" extension forced on very input file (#74)
2454 * eof() for mapfiles was true one byte too soon (#76)
2455 * out of range \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin settings now actually
2456 disable hyphenation (#90)
2457 * tex.unset_attribute() looked too far ahead when a to-be-unset
2458 attribute id not only did not exist in the node, but was also
2459 higher than the highest set attribute on the node. (#65)
2460 * the parameters attr and page_name of read_image() were swapped
2461 (this broke \pdfimage with attributes)
2462 * tex filenames with spaces in them on the command line are now
2464 * sometimes pfb fonts were included multiple times without valid
2466 * some parts of the pdftex 1.40.9 PNG transparancy hack were still
2467 present and caused transparant png handling to fail
2468 * \localinterlinepenalty and \localbrokenpenalty were broken
2469 * special case catcode tables are now handled better (#23)
2470 * the handling of missing .notdef charstrings in old pfb fonts
2473 ==============================================================
2474 Luatex beta-0.29.0 was released 20080718
2475 ==============================================================
2480 * The embedded pdftex is now 1.40.9 (forthcoming) except for the
2482 - the png transparancy fix is skipped because it is in conflict
2483 with a macro-based solution offered by context mkiv.
2484 - LFS (PDF files > 2GiB) is not working yet.
2485 - Synctex is still missing
2487 * libpng, xpdf, and zlib are updated to their pdftex 1.0.9 levels
2489 * MPlib is updated to 1.090
2491 * The syntax of buildpage_filter is changed to avoid confusion
2492 (and crashes). See the manual for the new calling convention.
2494 Bugs fixed compared to 0.28.0:
2496 * The previous bugfix for \languages skipping numbers was wrong.
2498 * Various compile-time warnings are suppressed
2500 * \pdfsetmatrix was broken
2502 * \pdfsave and \pdfrestore were broken
2504 * Valid user_defined whatsits nevertheless were generating errors.
2507 ==============================================================
2508 Luatex beta-0.28.0 was released 20080630
2509 ==============================================================
2511 There is one new feature:
2513 There is now experimental support for non-trivial discretionaries
2514 following explicit hyphens. In analogy to \prehyphenchar and
2515 \posthyphenchar, there are two new parameters \preexhyphenchar en
2516 \postexhyphenchar. Both new parameters default to zero (nothing).
2517 When set to a nonzero value, the parameter is added to either the
2518 pre- or post- break text. Note that this is *in addition to* the
2519 hyphen already in the input. Testing and comments are very welcome.
2521 Here is a short example (no idea what is says):
2525 \postexhyphenchar=`-
2527 pudesse t\^e-lo mantido como amigo, mas por
2528 mais bem-intencionado que eu fosse, n\~ao
2534 Bugs fixed compared to 0.27.0:
2536 * Words that started off with a character with a zero \lccode
2537 were never hyphenated at all.
2539 * There was a bug in the new active characters code that prevented
2540 the latex format from being built (with Invalid character error).
2542 * There is a temporary fix for the sometimes appearing "Font has a
2543 bad FontBB" message from Acrobat.
2545 * \leaders did not actually stretch enough (the last bit of glue
2546 that has to line up the line endings was never output to the PDF).
2548 * Bad paragraph-related callbacks could result in luatex crashing.
2550 * The pre_linebreak and post_linebreak filters were never called
2551 when \output was active (this was a leftover of a superceded
2554 * 'skipping' language codes when setting up \patterns c.s. did not
2555 work (it used the next empty slot instead of the actual value of
2558 * Using multiple 'attr' keywords on box items could cause random
2561 * Calling lang.hyphenate() with one argument (without specifying a
2562 tail node) could crash.
2564 * The luatex pdf banner and version reporting is cleaned up a bit.
2566 * Conflicting patterns inside \patterns now give an error:
2567 ! Conflicting pattern ignored.
2568 (duplicate identical patterns are ignored without error).
2570 ==============================================================
2571 Luatex beta-0.27.0 was released 20080624
2572 ==============================================================
2574 Bugs fixed compared to 0.25.3:
2576 * Unicode reencoding support for non-standard (i.e. older)
2577 Type1 fonts is now somewhat less broken than it was (#25)
2579 * .vf fonts using specials crashed luatex
2581 * luatex would crash on --\par (#33)
2583 * An attempt is made to get a sane default value for StemV in
2584 the created pdf (#32)
2586 * We can now guarantee that %PDF-1.* header is printed before
2587 the first pdf.print() output
2589 * lang.hyphenate() was broken
2591 * insert_before(a,a,b) was broken (#37)
2593 * argv[0] is now cleaned up before being used as a default for
2594 mem_name and prog_name (#28).
2596 * luatex would crash on loading extended fonts (fonts loaded
2597 via lua callbacks) from a format file.
2599 * The fix for pdftex bug #799 is backported from pdftex 1.40.4.
2601 * slnunicode had a bug in the unicode.utf8.gmatch iterator.
2603 * Queries of nonexisting fontdimens could cause a crash.
2605 * luatex would crash on {\textdir TLT\pardir TLT x\break\par }
2607 * Fixed wrong placement of lines in mixed-direction paragraphs
2608 that could happen in some situations.
2611 * Luatex now includes luasocket (#35)
2612 See http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~diego/professional/luasocket/
2614 There is a new commandline option: --nosocket to disable this,
2615 and that is also implied by --safer.
2617 NOTE to the binary builders: there are some unfixed configure
2618 problems when you need to add a specific library to get socket
2619 support on your platform. You probably will have to edit the
2620 generated Makefile by hand (search for 'socketlib').
2622 * There is ongoing development to the 'img' and 'mplib' libraries.
2623 See the reference manual for details.
2625 * The 'character commands' in virtual fonts now support image
2626 inclusion. See the reference manual for details.
2628 * Lua error messages now include the call stack.
2630 * \directlua and \latelua have been extended to accept a 'name'
2631 keyword. The argument is a token list that is used as the lua
2632 name of this chunk in lua error messages and call stack prints.
2635 * The lua chunk names can be interfaced via a new virtual
2636 table called lua.instancename, the values in that function as
2637 defaults in the absence of 'name' keywords.
2639 * The 2-plane limit on active character range is removed (#12).
2641 * Subsetted TTF fonts in the PDF now retain the cmap table.
2643 * There is a new Lua variable os.selfdir. This contains the
2644 full absolute pathname of the directory that the executable
2645 resides in (with symlinks resolved)
2647 * There is a new function os.uname() this returns a lua
2648 table containing various platform information items.
2650 * The node library now uses text strings for direction specifiers
2651 instead of numbers. See the reference manual for details.
2653 * The 'E' (edit) as error response functionality is now a noop.
2655 * Adding luatex 0.25.3 to texlive resulted in a few minor backports,
2656 in particular: Support for mktexfmt is added, and luatangle now
2657 identifies itself as such (instead of calling itself otangle).
2659 * We fixed a whole series of portability problems (but
2660 we probably introduced new problems as well).
2662 * Most (all?) files now have a corrected Copyright header,
2663 and link in $Id$ and $URL$ into the object file.
2665 * Some unnecessary files were removed from the distribution.
2667 ==============================================================
2668 Luatex beta-0.25.3 was released 20080418
2669 ==============================================================
2672 * Pdftex bug no. 936 (sarovar) regarding vertical
2673 positioning of embedded PDF files if depth parameter is given.
2674 * Luatex gave bogus lua return values for the tex.wd/hd/dp
2675 values of void boxes
2676 * A few bugfixes in mplib (square pens caused hangs, elliptical
2677 pens caused confused output)
2678 * Hyphenation of uppercase words (\uchyph) was broken
2679 * Output image placements corrected for all 8 transform cases
2680 also when artbox etc. is used
2681 * There were missing maketexstring() calls in error messages
2682 * Math display contents were sometimes prematurely freed during
2683 the placement of the equation number
2684 * Setting \language=-1 could cause crashes due to an array
2685 index going out-of-bounds
2688 * build.sh.ppc is added to the source distribution. This is a
2689 script that crosscompiles osx ppc binaries from osx intel
2690 * tex.box[<chardef name>] is now supported (but still experimental)
2691 * a bunch of compiler warnings are removed
2692 * The fontforge library now dump AAT feature tags as and
2694 * The new function font.nextid() predicts the next assigned font id
2695 * Some source code changes are backported from texlive
2697 ==============================================================
2698 Luatex beta-0.25.2 was released 20080410
2699 ==============================================================
2701 * Updated to MPlib 0.40
2702 * Bugfixes and cleanup in the lua img table code
2703 * Fix \pdflastximagepages bug from pdftex
2704 * Fix for very large tex.print strings
2705 * Update to Lpeg 0.8.1
2706 * &D Bugfix for Type1 fonts when out-of-range characters
2707 are marked as 'used'
2709 ==============================================================
2710 Luatex beta-0.25.1 was released 20080321
2711 ==============================================================
2713 * Updated to MPlib 0.30 (that is now becoming usable)
2714 * The build requirement for a pre-installed ctangle is gone
2717 ==============================================================
2718 Luatex beta-0.25.0 was released 20080311
2719 ==============================================================
2724 This version features an embedded MP interpreter whose output
2725 can be directly accessed from lua code (mplib), without calls
2726 to an external "mpost" command. Of course it has bugs and
2727 limitations (makempx does not work, for example) but keep in
2728 mind that it is only an initial attempt.
2729 See the manual for more details.
2731 ** img.immediatewrite() is added
2732 ** images now accept a 'transform' key
2733 ** widths etc. can now be given as width="100mm"
2737 * \parshape handling was completely broken since 0.20.0+
2738 * when \pdfprotrudechars was in effect, an assertion failure
2739 could happen when embedded \hboxes in the paragraph appeared
2740 at the end of a line.
2741 * import of otf fonts with contextual lookups has been debugged,
2742 thanks to a patch by GW himself.
2743 * compiling with gcc 4.2.3 is now supported
2744 * if you want to build from source, you need a pre-installed ctangle.
2747 ==============================================================
2748 Luatex beta-0.22.1 was released 20080227
2749 ==============================================================
2751 * The macnames.c source file for building ttf2afm is restored.
2752 * "make depend" in luatexdir now works again
2753 * luatex sometimes crashed because it attempted to expand an
2754 already expanded font
2755 * luatex aborted when --progname was given but no format name.
2756 It now sets the format name to the given progname in that case
2757 * sometimes paragraphs with near-empty lines could cause a crash
2758 * img.supportedtypes() had a bug causing it to crash
2759 * img.supportedtypes() has been renamed to img.types for consistency
2760 * img.boxes() added, returns strings representing bounding boxes
2761 * img.node() added, returns a whatsit node cf. \pdfrefximage
2762 * node.write() now accepts multiple arguments
2763 * the program_name_set switch was not set automatically from C,
2764 causing errors unless lua code called kpse.set_program_name()
2766 * kpse.set_program_name() can now be called more than once
2768 * os.spawn{...} and os.exec{...} could cause crashes because of
2769 a memory allocation error
2771 ==============================================================
2772 Luatex beta-0.22.0 was released 20080215
2773 ==============================================================
2775 * We now have an official bug tracker: http://tracker.luatex.org
2776 * A new lua library (img) is added that allows a direct
2777 interface to the image handling of luatex. You can use this
2778 to include images from lua code instead of via the more
2779 traditional \pdfximage cs. See the manual.
2780 * An optional equal sign after \{pre,post}hyphenchar is now
2782 * os.exec() has been extended, and os.spawn() added. These
2783 functions have support for quoted strings, and they
2784 also accept a table with preseparated command arguments.
2785 * New string constants os.type and os.name are provided.
2786 * node.last_node() is added. This pops and returns the last
2787 node from luatex's 'current list'
2788 * node.write() is added. This appends a node to the end of
2789 luatex's 'current list' (experimental).
2790 * The strict check on unicode compliance in pattern files
2791 is dropped. Patterns files still have to be in proper UTF-8
2792 encoding, but the error for non-Unicode character values
2793 (like 0 - 31 and 127 - 159) is dropped.
2794 * \pdfadjustinterwordglue, \prependkern, \appendkern
2795 and associated \XXXXcode arrays are gone.
2796 * The rest of the pdftex font arrays are now merged into
2797 the new luatex font data structure. This means that you
2798 can now set up font expansion from lua code, and that a few
2799 font-related limits are gone.
2800 * The 'top_skip' field in 'insert' nodes is renamed to 'spec',
2801 for improved consistency.
2802 * kpse.show_path() added. This behaves just like
2803 $ kpsewhich --show-path
2804 * The unicode.utf8 functions now also accept values in the range
2805 1.114.112 - 1.114.367 that is used by LUATEX for raw byte output.
2809 * Better node memory (de)allocation error tracking and messages
2810 * Compilation on MacOSX 10.5 was broken
2811 * There was a bug in node.insert_after
2812 * Use of \{pre,post}hyphenchar was broken
2813 * lfs.permissions was leaking memory
2814 * Some warning and error messages are improved a bit
2815 * A set of bugs in character protrusion, this seems to be working
2817 * Also, a set of bugs in font expansion. This now works in most
2818 cases but is not quite bugfree yet (problematic files for testing
2820 * The functions in the kpse library would crash luatex if
2821 kpse.set_program_name() was not yet called. gives an error now.
2822 * Alignments with spanned columns could cause crashes
2823 * A patch is added for problems with filename parsing on the
2824 "first input line" (by Jonathan Kew)
2825 * The hpack_filter and vpack_filter were only called for lists longer
2827 * Luatex is now more forgiving about font subsets being smaller
2828 than their expected size (issues a warning instead of aborts now)
2829 * A "double-free ignored" error for paragraphs with lines starting
2830 with discarded items was fixed.
2832 ==============================================================
2833 Luatex beta-0.20.2 was released 20071217
2834 ==============================================================
2836 * some portability fixes to the build scripts
2837 * a fix for multi-\span in alignments causing unbreakable
2839 * manual improvements from Jonathan Sauer
2840 * fix for undefined csnames in \directlua if
2841 web2c's hash_extra is nonzero
2842 * fix for LR text inside of a RL document
2843 * fix for open_read_file callback not being called
2844 unless find_read_file was also registered
2845 * removed the ocp status message when \ocps are not
2847 * "unicodeenc" in the fontforge to_table renamed to
2848 "unicode" for improved consistency
2850 ==============================================================
2851 Luatex beta-0.20.1 was released 20071207
2852 ==============================================================
2854 * texlua was broken on Solaris because the some C header
2855 files were loaded in the wrong order.
2856 * os.tmpdir() now accepts an argument, making it easier
2857 to use. It now generates more unique filenames when
2858 it is called repeatedly in one run.
2859 * The --luaconly commandline switch is now documented
2861 * The new extended hyphenation exceptions were severely
2863 * \pdfprotrudechars could cause luatex to abort with an
2865 * There was a bug in the \span code that could cause endless
2867 * The simple forms of \leaders were messed up on windows
2868 because a variable was not properly initialized.
2869 * Non-grouped \textdir commands created invalid output.
2870 * e-TeX's pseudo files were not closed properly in ini mode.
2871 * The luatex.web now weaves properly again.
2872 * I made some small improvements to the manual.
2874 ==============================================================
2875 Luatex beta-0.20.0 was released 20071205
2876 ==============================================================
2878 News compared to the last beta (0.11.2) is as follows:
2880 * Completely overhauled hyphenation and ligkern application,
2881 including the addition of a new "lang" table in lua to
2882 interface to the language parameters, some extra functions
2883 in the "node" table, and a few extra callbacks ("hyphenate",
2884 "ligaturing", "kerning", "post_linebreak_filter").
2886 There is a new chapter in the manual to document all the
2887 changes to the hyphenation and line breaking algorithms,
2888 it is simply too much to list here.
2890 * the interface of the pre_linebreak_filter,hpack_filter,
2891 vpack_filter, and pre_output_filter has changed slightly.
2893 * boxes can now get explicit attributes different from the
2894 currently active set, using a syntax like
2896 \hbox attr2=12 attr3=-1 to 12pt {Hi!}
2898 * lpeg is now at version 0.7
2900 * a whole series of exotic bugs and compiler warnings are
2901 fixed, mostly thanks to the watchful eye of Fabrice.
2903 * texio.print now accepts multiple strings as arguments.
2905 * the lua functions os.sleep(), os.times(), os.gettimeofday()
2906 and os.tmpdir() have been added.
2908 * lua now comes with the coroutine (coco) patches from the
2909 luajit project applied.
2911 * the banner line no longer claims to be TeX.
2913 * a bunch of bugs reported on the mailing list have been
2914 fixed (I hope all of them).
2916 * (internal) we found lots of small ways to speed up lua
2919 * (internal) the node (de)allocation functions have been
2920 rewritten, so that absolutely all nodes now have a type,
2921 even the ones with variable sizes.
2924 ==============================================================
2925 Luatex snapshot-20071029 was released 20071029
2926 ==============================================================
2928 * Completely overhauled hyphenation and ligkern application.
2930 There is a new chapter in the manual to document all the
2931 changes to the hyphenation and line breaking algorithms,
2932 it is simply too much to list here.
2934 * the interface of the pre_linebreak_filter,hpack_filter,
2935 vpack_filter, and pre_output_filter has changed slightly.
2937 * lpeg is now at version 0.7
2939 * a whole series of exotic bugs and compiler warnings are
2940 fixed thanks to the watchful eye of Fabrice.
2942 * texio.print now accepts multiple strings as arguments.
2944 * The lua function os.sleep() is added
2946 ==============================================================
2947 Luatex beta-0.11.2 was released 20070918
2948 ==============================================================
2950 * Pdf inclusion and subsetting of CID-based opentype fonts
2951 now works as it should.
2953 ==============================================================
2954 Luatex beta-0.11.1 was released 20070918
2955 ==============================================================
2957 A quick list of what is new and fixed since beta 0.10.2:
2960 * pfb+afm fonts can now be used in 'wide' (encodingbytes=2) mode
2961 * searching in PDFS using 'wide' fonts now works reasonably well
2962 (based on the tounicode feature)
2963 * related to that, tounicode information can now be passed
2964 on inside the font metrics table
2965 * font subsetting is now supported for CID-based OpenType fonts
2966 (however, there is a known bug with KpozMinProVI-Regular.otf)
2967 * fontforge's warning and error messages are now intercepted
2968 and passed on to the lua code as a second return value of
2969 the fontforge.open() function
2970 * the new primitive \suppressfontnotfounderror can suppress
2971 the TeX error for "Font not found"
2972 * The lua function font.current can now be used to set TeX's
2976 * set_attribute(-1) is now the same as unset_attribute()
2977 * OpenType lookups with glyph classes would crash luatex
2978 * luazlib would not compile on debian (fix from Norbert)
2979 * CID-based fonts would crash luatex
2980 * Bare CFF should be read in binary mode (fix from Akira)
2981 * VF processing did not process packets containing zero bytes properly
2982 * the truetype collection (.ttc) handling is fixed, so that all
2983 of the fonts inside a collection can now be used reliably
2984 * application segfaults and stack overflows are intercepted
2985 so that luatex can quit a bit more gracefully
2986 * an assertion failuer on systems with signed chars (linux-powerpc)
2988 * a crash on AMD64 linux was fixed
2989 * the lua "pdf" table code was wrong
2990 * \ifcsname did not work properly for UTF-8 characters
2991 * Use of the math-related functions using make_fraction (like \atop)
2993 * \handling of \if\noexpand was wrong
2994 * applied a patch that cleans up XForm and page calculations
2995 * "autoconf" support from zziplib is stripped
2997 ==============================================================
2998 Luatex beta-0.10.2 was released 20070814
2999 ==============================================================
3003 * the primitive \span was completely broken
3004 * \pdfexpandfont (font expansion) misbehaved if it was used more
3006 * virtual fonts: sometimes they used the wrong internal font id,
3007 loading vf fonts via fonts.read_vf() was impossible, and sometimes
3008 virtual fonts created segfaults
3009 * while dumping formats, the last font parameter for each font was not
3011 * zziplib was always compiled with pre-installed zlib headers, instead
3012 of the ones in the build tree
3013 * lua 5.1.2 has trouble quoting ^Z characters etc, the tentative patch
3014 for lua 5.2 from Luiz fixes that, hopefully
3015 * fontforge.font('font.pfb') now properly parses AFM boundingboxes
3016 * non-existing files in the argument for fontforge.open() or
3017 fontforge.info() could cause segfaults, now it generates an error
3019 * fontforge.open() did not return character widths for vertical fonts
3021 * on Windows, fontforge believed that ttc files (TrueType Collections)
3022 were actually directories. ttc processing is still not 100% correct,
3023 but it is getting better
3024 * the build system used explicit 'make' sometimes
3025 * the auto-growing string pool was not used everywhere
3026 * there were some typos in the documentation parts of the pascal web
3027 * use of \parshape could easily exhaust all available memory
3032 * support for applying Adobe Feature files (.fea) and Adobe Font
3033 Metrics (.afm) is added to the fontforge library
3034 * fontforge.info() will now return an array of tables for the contents
3036 * support for a 'texluac' personality was added, to replace the 'luac'
3037 command from the official Lua distribution
3039 ==============================================================
3040 Luatex beta-0.10.1 was released 20070719
3041 ==============================================================
3043 This was a hotfix because beta-0.10.0 was completely broken.
3045 ==============================================================
3046 Luatex beta-0.10.0 was released 20070718
3047 ==============================================================
3049 The latest version of the manual is included in the package, and I
3050 am not going to repeat all of that. There were some minor changes
3051 compared to the previous snapshot, but mostly just bugfixes and
3052 documentation improvements.
3054 ==============================================================
3055 Luatex snapshot-20070626 was released 20070626
3056 ==============================================================
3058 * Integrated the lua library lzlib, this defines tables with
3059 bindings for zlib (including eazy-to-use gzip support)
3060 * Updated to slnunicode version 1.1
3061 * Some small cleanups in the sparse array handling
3062 * Moved the raw byte support out of the valid unicode range
3063 * Fixed a bug in the OFM font reader
3064 * Removed the pdftex snap nodes (and associated primitives)
3067 ==============================================================
3068 Luatex snapshot-20070622 was released 20070622
3069 ==============================================================
3071 Not a lot of news, but it fixes a few important bugs in the lua
3072 node processing. Also a few utility functions are added:
3075 rounds and bounds checks a lua number to make sure it is
3076 a valid tex integer.
3078 multiplies a number (or the numeric values in a table)
3079 with a fixed quantity, and calls tex.round() on the result.
3081 Test if a node has a specified field name
3083 removes a node from a nodelist, while keeping the list intact
3084 * node.insert_before()
3085 inserts a new node into a nodelist, just before a specified
3087 * node.insert_before()
3088 inserts a new node into a nodelist, just after a specified
3091 packages a nodelist into a hlist node
3094 ==============================================================
3095 Luatex snapshot-20070619 was released 20070619
3096 ==============================================================
3098 * The lua node processing interface is completely reworked.
3099 It is now completely based on userdata, and uses a new lua table
3100 called 'node' to hold the methods. More detailed information
3101 is in the manual (of course).
3103 * There is a fifth node processing callback:
3105 this is executed just before the packaging of \box 255.
3107 * The hpack_filter and pre_linebreak_filter callbacks now
3108 receive an extra argument indicating the number of top-level
3109 glyphs in the node list.
3111 * Virtual fonts can now contain a 'node' key in the glyph
3112 commands: the value should be a hlist node (i.e.: a horizontal
3113 box), and that will then be output for each character access
3116 * A new set of registers is added, called \attribute. These are
3117 values that will be automatically attached to nodes created in
3118 their scope. More information in the manual.
3120 * Direct read/write access to TeX's box registers is addded to
3121 the lua 'tex' table.
3123 * TeX's main memory now grows dynamically, and the (de)allocation
3124 routines have been rewritten completely.
3126 * The 'kpse' table is extended with extra interface functions, to
3127 allow texlua to be used as a scripting engine.
3129 * The \pdftexversion command now returns 200, not 140.
3131 * The displayed banner and --version screens are cleaned up.
3133 * The format file is now RLE compressed. Not as small as before,
3134 but unpacking is much faster.
3137 ==============================================================
3138 Luatex snapshot-20070426 was released 20070426
3139 ==============================================================
3141 This past month I have been busy with nodes and lists of nodes,
3142 so the big new feature in this release is that there are four
3143 callbacks that operate on node lists:
3146 pre_linebreak_filter
3150 The preliminary documentation for these is in the manual, but the basic
3151 idea is that you can filter a node list just before LuaTeX starts doing
3152 something with it (like line breaking). This functionality is not stable
3153 yet: the node presentation of the various node types is pretty much OK
3154 now, but keep in mind the following:
3156 * math noads and math typesetting are not handled at all (yet)
3157 * not all hpacks and vpacks are intercepted (yet)
3158 * the nested node list handling will probably change
3159 * A conversion tool for nodes to/from dictionaries is planned,
3162 The other changes in this snapshot are various bugfixes (for builds
3163 on various platforms as well as font issues) and speedups (in the
3164 execution of callbacks and the creation of lua font representations).
3167 ==============================================================
3168 Luatex snapshot-20070322 was released 20070322
3169 ==============================================================
3171 * I have changed the token_filter callback quite rigorously,
3172 mostly because of speed issues. The raw speed of trivial
3173 lua token handling is now only about 20 times slower than
3174 the native handling. Not bad at all, considering it has to move
3175 between interpreted and compiled code for each and every
3176 token. If you do not run the token filter inside \output,
3177 the effective run speed difference should not be much more
3180 Two big differences: you have to call token.get_next()
3181 yourself, and the token table is now a three-item array
3182 instead of a five-key hash. The minimal example changes to
3185 callback.register('token_filter', function ()
3186 return token.get_next()
3190 more details are in the manual.
3192 * I've fixed a few bugs in the handling of Opentype TTF, and added
3193 a new key in the font definition table:
3195 f.encodingbytes = (1|2)
3197 The default is 2 for opentype and truetype format, 1 otherwise.
3198 Later on, it will become possible to have a type1 font in 2-byte
3199 (CID) encoding or a truetype font in traditional encoding (1-byte),
3200 but I have not covered all cases yet.
3204 ==============================================================
3205 Luatex snapshot-20070309 was released 20070309
3206 ==============================================================
3208 * The OCP debug information is removed again.
3210 * There is a new callback that I am quite excited about myself:
3214 A bit of text from the reference manual:
3215 --------------------
3216 This callback allows you to change the modify any lexical token that
3217 enters the \type{main_control} function before \LUATEX\ executes the
3220 Note: not all tokens can be intercepted yet, only those that are `seen'
3221 by \LUATEX's main control function. Supplemental tokens like the bodies
3222 of macro definitions and the right-hand side of register assignments
3223 are not seen. For now, this is intentional.
3226 function (table <token>)
3227 return table <token>
3231 Calling convention for this callback is bit more complicated then for
3232 most other callbacks. Initially, lua function will be called with the
3233 next token from \type{get_next()} as argument, represented as a small
3234 lua table. The function should either return a lua table representing
3235 a valid to-be-processed token, or something else like nil or an empty
3238 If your lua function does not return a table representing a valid
3239 token, it will be immediately called again with yet another token
3240 from \type{get_next()} as argument, until it eventually does return
3243 But if the function does return a usable token, then that token will
3244 be processed by \LUATEX. Afterwards, the function will be called
3245 again, but now without an argument. This is repeated until it stops
3246 returning tokens. Then processing reverts back to the other branch.
3248 The point behind that roundabout calling convention is that it
3249 allows the lua function to buffer tokens for various uses. That in
3250 turn makes it possible to do some really advanced things like
3253 Now about that table. The table that the function will receive
3254 contains four fields:
3256 \starttabulate[|l|i|p|]
3257 \NC Key \NC type \NC Explanation \NC\FR
3258 \NC cmd \NC string \NC A representation of \LUATEX's internal
3260 \NC chr \NC number \NC The command code modifier\NC\NR
3261 \NC cs \NC string \NC If the token came from a csname, this
3262 is that csname\NC\NR
3263 \NC mod \NC character \NC A single character string representing
3264 the current processing mode. One of {\bf v}ertical, {\bf h}orizontal,
3265 display {\bf m}ath, {\bf n}o, internal {\bf V}ertical,
3266 restricted {\bf H}orizontal, or inline {\bf M}ath mode.\NC\LR
3269 If you modify the table before returning it, then it is wise to return
3270 either a (\type{cmd}, \type{chr}) pair, or a \type{cs} string. That is
3271 because if both options are present, the pair has precedence and the
3272 string is ignored. On the return table, {\bf mod} is ignored always.
3275 I have no long example code yet and it is not as complete as one
3276 would want it to be because it is not intercepting everything that
3277 comes in, only the bits that are triggered by the main control
3280 I decided to do a fast snapshot release for two reasons:
3282 * It is one of the easier extensions to get started with if you want
3283 to learn a bit about lua programming
3285 * I would welcome feedback on the token interface, because it will
3286 be needed in other places as well, soon. I am still not sure
3287 whether converting the command to/from strings is worth it, for
3288 example. And maybe it would be less confusing if you could return
3289 a list of tokens instead of being called repeatedly?
3291 Here is the trivial example to get you started:
3294 callback.register('token_filter', function (t) return t end)
3298 ==============================================================
3299 Luatex snapshot-20070307 was released 20070307
3300 ==============================================================
3303 * Non-CID PostScript-based Opentype fonts are now combined over
3304 the entire document, and properly subsetted. The code is
3305 borrowed from xdvipdfmx with some minor adjustments
3307 Adding support for CID-keyed OpenType fonts would not be hard
3308 but at the moment I lack example input (and incentive).
3310 * A small extension to the virtual fonts structure: you can use
3312 f.fonts[1] = { 'id' = 38}
3314 to do a backreference to a previously defined font. This saves quite
3317 * There was a bug in the handling of \leaders in the output whereby
3318 it's width was taken to be twice what it should be while writing
3319 to the PDF, fixed now.
3321 * The font inclusion code is cleaned up a bit by Hartmut.
3323 * Some compilation problems were fixed.
3325 * There is (quite a bit of) debugging information printed out when
3326 OTPs are in use, because I am tracking down a bug reported by Idris.
3328 The input of each and every OTP step is shown on the terminal in
3331 [57902][1568][58423][1568][58408][1568][58921]
3333 those are the decimal values of ocp i/o characters. If you don't
3334 need them, don't worry about it.
3336 ==============================================================
3337 Luatex snapshot-20070302 was released 20070302
3338 ==============================================================
3340 * The 'snapshot version' banner is now calculated dynamically
3341 at build time. This aids in figuring out what binary people
3342 are actually running, but it can possibly break the build on
3343 systems that do not have a `date` command.
3345 * The do_vf() function that checks for virtual font existance
3346 is now run immediately after the font definition instead of
3347 being postponed until characters are output.
3349 * The 'define_font' callback interface has changed a little.
3351 retval = function (name,size,fontid)
3353 where fontid is the internal font number of the font that
3354 is currently being defined, and retval can be either a table
3355 (as before) or a different, previously defined fontid. This is
3356 useful if a previous definition can be reused instead of
3357 creating a whole new font structure.
3359 * The internal font data structure has been redone. Glyph index
3360 inside a font is now handled by a sparse array, so that use
3361 of e.g. 0xFB01 (fi-ligature) no longer creates a 64000+ entries
3364 * The internal cache-ing of font metric information is turned
3365 off completely, because it was based on the assumption that
3366 name + size were a unique identifier for a font. This can no
3367 longer be guaranteed.
3369 * word boundary processing now works OK again, thanks to the
3370 introduction of two virtual characters in the font table
3371 definition. Besides the normal numeric entries in the
3372 f.characters table, there can now also be two string keys:
3373 "left_boundary" and "right_boundary". The ligatures and kerns
3374 of the 'left_boundary' character are used for the pre-word
3375 boundary processing, ligatures and kerns between characters
3376 and 'right_boundary' are used for the post-word processing.
3378 * Lua font table references are no longer cached by the
3379 executable ,in order to preserve memory. (the only downside
3380 is that font.fonts[] access is now slower because of the need
3381 to recreate the lua table).
3383 * There are other some small changes to the font table formats.
3384 Please see the manual for details.
3386 * A 'real' font can now still have virtual characters if they
3387 are loaded via lua. Just set the 'commands' section and/or
3388 the 'fonts' array to your liking, and it should work out.
3390 If you have created no 'fonts' array at all, then the default
3391 font (indentifier '1') is the current font, so that you
3392 can create virtual duplicates of already existing characters.
3394 Note: this does not work the other way. There can not be
3395 'real' characters in a virtual font!
3397 * Truetype-based opentype fonts no longer require Acrobat 7
3398 t(hey are now written out as if they are normal truetype).
3400 * A lua init script can now set 'texconfig.formatname' and/or
3401 'texconfig.jobname'. If ther is no file or format specified
3402 on the commandline, then, if, one of those keys is present,
3403 that key will be used instead of simply quitting with an
3406 * Placement of boxes and rules in right-to-left mode is debugged,
3407 and now seems to work ok.
3409 * Virtual font loading is debugged.
3411 * Some memory leaks are resolved
3413 * HZ font expansion should work ok again, but is not tested.
3415 * a few of the warning during opentype loading have been removed
3416 because the problems are rather harmless and turned out to be
3417 triggered by almost every font.
3420 ==============================================================
3421 Luatex snapshot-20070218 was released 20070218
3422 ==============================================================
3424 * The pdftex stuff is now updated to 1.40.3
3425 (and on top of that, it still has those extra patches announced in
3428 * The virtual font parser is debugged and now appears rather stable.
3430 * There is one extra virtual command:
3433 {"slot", 1, 97}, -- place character 97 'a' in local font 1.
3436 This is just a shortcut for {"font",1}, {"char", 97}
3438 * Some small memory leaks have been fixed. Luatex does not leak big
3439 time, but I'd like to get back to valgrind reporting '0 out of 0',
3440 instead of the current 800 bytes or so (that is a slow process).
3442 * You can read a truetype or opentype font from within lua code
3443 using font.read_ttf() or font.read_otf(), respectively.
3445 This feature uses a fair bit of the fontforge code, making the
3446 binary rather a bit larger than before. Just so you know.
3448 Apple (AAT, as well as encoding) support is still largely missing,
3449 and bitmap-only and old Multiple-Master truetype fonts are not
3450 supported at all (and never will be).
3452 The output format is (shadily) documented in the reference manual.
3453 At the moment, it very closely resembles the internal font stucture
3454 that is used by fontforge.
3456 * LuaTeX can now write wide OpenType fonts to the PDF file.
3458 There is no subsetting support yet, and a ToUnicode CMap is also
3459 still missing, but nevertheless it is already somewhat useful. The
3460 rule is very simple: if a font uses code points above 255, then it
3461 is considered to be a `wide' font, and it will be written out as
3462 a Type0 CID-keyed font to the PDF.
3464 Caveat: Getting suitable metrics into LuaTeX can be a bit of problem
3465 right now, because font.read_otf() does not produce anything that
3466 can be fed back into define_font without extra processing. Hans has
3467 some experimental Lua code for ConTeXt (of course :-)) and that is
3468 how I know it works. You can expect a nicer interface soon,
3469 hopefully next week, in the form of a simplistic table conversion
3472 * I have started work on supporting Aleph's bidi typesetting in PDF
3473 mode as well, simple text seems to be largely ok. More complicated
3474 documents will no doubt still show some bugs, but fixing those will
3475 be easy (once they are discovered). Exactly what happens with specials
3476 is not yet investigated.
3478 * Omega's (16-bit) wide virtual fonts now work OK in PDF mode. This
3479 means that many Aleph files can now be run in PDF mode directly.
3480 (the documents that use UTF-8 input encoding)
3483 ==============================================================
3484 Luatex snapshot-20070202 was released 20070202
3485 ==============================================================
3488 * The pdftex stuff is now updated to 1.40.2, and on top of that, it has
3490 - an extra patch from Han The Thanh that adds a primitive to control
3491 the merging of fonts from external pdf images (\pdfreplacefonts),
3492 and a bugfix for virtual font handling.
3494 - an extra patch by Hartmut Henkel that removes a number of malloc()s
3495 and free()s from the calls to the compression library, thereby
3496 making luatex run a bit faster.
3498 * luatex now happily accepts the following low-level syntax:
3500 \font\myfont = <general text> <at specifier>
3502 It feeds the <general text> to either kpathsea or a lua script for
3503 further processing after stripping the braces.
3505 In itself, this is not all that useful, but the reason for this
3506 syntax extension is that it paves the road for a macro package
3507 to do something like this:
3509 \font\myfont = {font="Times New Roman", color="\darkred",
3510 encoding="ec", features="liga", size=10bp}
3512 without having to resort to system-specific quoting mechanisms.
3513 Macro (and other) expansion takes inside the braced argument.
3515 (I am considering adding this extension to \input as well).
3517 * It is now possible to define a font into the font.fonts[]
3518 directly from lua, but becayse use is limited, I am only
3519 mentioning it to be complete.
3522 <number> id = font.define(<table> font)
3524 * There is a (not very reliable yet) virtual font parser accessible
3528 <table> vfdata = font.read_vf(<string> name, <number> size)
3530 The interpreter tries to give a reasonable representation of a
3531 virtual font file (the .vf file). Besides a few simple top-level
3534 designsize -- in scaled points
3536 name -- the file name
3537 checksum -- the vf checksum
3538 header -- the header comment (if any)
3540 it also has a top-level array 'fonts' wherein each item is a mini-
3541 array describing one of te mapped fonts. An example makes this
3544 "fonts" = { {"ptmr8a",655360}, {"psyr", 600000} }
3546 says that the first referenced font (index 1) in this virtual font
3547 is ptrmr8a.tfm loaded at 10pt, and the second is psyr.tfm loaded
3548 at a little over 9pt. These index numbers are used by the character
3549 command definitions that follow.
3551 At top level, there is a 'characters' array, just as for a normal
3552 font, except that each item has only two keys:
3554 "width" -- the tfm width (as stored in the .vf)
3555 "commands" -- an array of virtual font commands for a character.
3557 each of the items in the 'commands' array is itself a tiny hash.
3559 Each of those mini-hashes represents a single character packet
3560 command. Here is a 'commands' entry that contains every possible
3564 {"push"}, -- remember where we are
3565 {"right", 5000}, -- move right 0.08pt
3566 {"font", 1}, -- select the fonts[1] entry
3567 {"setchar", 97}, -- place character 97 'a'
3568 {"pop"}, -- go all the way back
3569 {"down", -200000}, -- move *up* about 3pt
3570 {"special", "pdf: 1 0 0 rg"} -- switch to red color
3571 {"rule", 500000, 20000} -- draw a bar
3572 {'special',"pdf: 0 g"} -- back to black
3576 * But the big news is that you can now define your own virtual fonts
3577 on the fly, by adding a few statements to the table returned to
3578 the 'define_font' callback.
3580 There are a few requirements:
3582 - The table has to have a top-level key 'type', and it's value
3585 The presence of this key with the specific value 'virtual'
3586 will trigger handling of the rest of the special virtual font
3587 fields in the table, but the mere existance of 'type' is
3588 enough to prevent luatex from looking for a virtual font
3591 Therefore, this also works 'in reverse': if you are absolutely
3592 certain that a font is not a virtual font, assigning the value
3593 'base' or 'real' to 'type' will inhibit tex from looking for a
3594 virtual font file, thereby saving you a disk search.
3596 - There must be a top-level 'fonts' array, as explained above.
3597 Any fonts that are not yet known to luatex at that moment,
3598 will be loaded automatically (Warning: do not ever use a font
3599 in 'fonts' with the same name you will return in the table you
3600 are defining right now!).
3602 - Each and every character in the fonts needs to have a 'commands'
3603 key, as explained above.
3605 The main point behind these restrictions is that a font is
3606 *either* a base font *or* a virtual font. It cannot be both
3610 ==============================================================
3611 Luatex snapshot-20070126 was released 20070126
3612 ==============================================================
3615 * Underscores in pascal identifiers are now retained.
3617 This took quite a bit of work. The web2c conversion tools
3618 needed only small adjustments, but most of the existing C
3619 code depended on the removal of the underscores. I had to
3620 go through changing many lines. 99% of all identifiers are
3621 now written the same on the pascal side as on the C side.
3622 This makes writing interface code quite a bit less confusing.
3624 Not everything is completely clean yet, because I did
3625 not want to change the web2c-specific C files. I often
3626 took the other approach and removed the underscores
3627 from the web2c options (like 'parsefirstlinep') in the
3628 change file instead. Ugly, but predictable.
3630 There is about a dozen or so of #defines left, that map
3631 memoryword -> memory_word
3635 * The virtual font parsing and interpreting is now done in C.
3636 (this is because it needs to be interfaced with the lua-based
3639 * I am in the process of merging: the VF stuff; the TFM stuff;
3640 the lua font loading; and the pdftex font backend into one
3641 interface, so there were some smallish changes relating to
3642 that as well. Nothing worth mentioning just yet except that
3643 luatex now will read "ovf" files as well as "vf" files.
3645 * There are a few really small bugfixes for bug reports I received
3646 on this list and by email.
3648 ==============================================================
3649 Luatex snapshot-20070119 was released 20070119
3650 ==============================================================
3652 The largest new bit is the existence of a font.fonts array, that you
3653 can use to query/adjust the internal defined tex fonts. See the manual
3656 Two small new lua extensions are added as well:
3658 * os.setenv() -- to change the environment
3659 * os.exec() -- a non-returning os.execute()
3661 And a bit of cleanup in the commandline processing.
3664 ==============================================================
3665 Luatex snapshot-20070117 was released 20070117
3666 ==============================================================
3668 * the pdftex core is updated to 1.40.1, and web2c to 7.5.6
3670 * the pdftex-specific documentation is removed
3672 * lua lpeg library updated to 0.4
3673 ( http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg.html )
3675 * the C part of the lua md5 library is added to the binary
3676 ( http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/md5/md5-5/md5.html )
3678 * --luaonly now puts the script itself at arg[0], and
3679 preceding commandline items in the negative indices
3680 (instead of starting the count at zero).
3681 This new approach is compatible with the standalone lua
3685 ==============================================================
3686 Luatex snapshot-20070107 was released 20070107
3687 ==============================================================
3689 Hot on the heels of 20070105, a new snapshot. It turns out
3690 that using the callback to define a font broke all ligatures.
3691 This snapshot fixes that, and it has a few minor updates to
3692 the manual. Next shapshot will be after the inclusion of
3695 ==============================================================
3696 Luatex snapshot-20070105 was released 20070105
3697 ==============================================================
3699 * the calculations that converted lua strings into tex units
3700 were horrendously wrong, this was discovered by Pawel.
3702 * io.lines() was still using the old, line ending sensitive,
3703 code from the lua core distribution
3705 * The main font memory is allocated as needed^(1) instead of
3706 statically pre-allocated.
3708 * ligatures and kerns are separated completely from each other,
3709 so use of \noligatures no longer inhibits kerning as well
3711 * Metrics can be loaded using a callback: 'define_font'.
3712 The value returned should be a lua table representing a tfm
3715 * there is a new lua table: font. It has one function:
3716 font.read_tfm() that returns a table reprentation of the tfm
3717 contents, for use with the above mentioned callback
3719 * I dropped suppport for "Level 1" OFM files. I would like
3720 to have a try at those extended font files, but I lack
3721 examples (fonts nor documents). I am not even sure such
3722 fonts have ever existed in the 'real world'.
3726 ==============================================================
3727 Luatex snapshot-20061208 was released 20061208
3728 ==============================================================
3730 * There is a new switch: --safer. This disables a number of lua
3731 functions that are more or less dangerous (a detailed list is
3734 * Two longstanding bugs have been fixed: \latelua works once
3735 again (patch by Hartmut) and a bug that caused mysterious crashes
3736 turned out to be a problem inside the paragraph builder
3737 (reconstitution of ligatures)
3739 * Six new string iterators have been added to the string library:
3740 string.characters (one 1-letter string)
3741 string.bytes (one byte)
3742 string.characterpairs (two 1-letter strings)
3743 string.bytepairs (two bytes)
3744 string.utfcharacters (a one-character utf-8 string)
3745 string.utfvalues (a unicode code point number)
3747 * The top 256 values of the unicode range (starting at hex
3748 value "10FF00) are now reserved for byte output. Characters
3749 in that range will be written by luatex after substracting
3750 that offset. The net result is that \char"10FFA9 is written
3751 as byte value hex A9 = decimal 169 = copyright sign in latin1
3753 This trick allows byte-oriented output to \pdfliterals and
3754 \specials, but should be considered very experimental.
3756 * There is a new callback called 'process_input_buffer' that can
3757 be used to mutate the line buffer just before LuaTeX actually
3758 starts looking at it.
3760 * The statistics table now has readable items
3762 statistics.lasterrorstring
3763 that represent TeX's current input id and the last error string
3765 * The show_error_hook callback no longer receives any arguments
3766 * There is a new switch: --safer. This disables a number of lua
3767 functions that are more or less dangerous (a detailed list is
3770 * Two longstanding bugs have been fixed: \latelua works once
3771 again (patch by Hartmut) and a bug that caused mysterious crashes
3772 turned out to be a problem inside the paragraph builder
3773 (reconstitution of ligatures)
3775 * Six new string iterators have been added to the string library:
3776 string.characters (one 1-letter string)
3777 string.bytes (one byte)
3778 string.characterpairs (two 1-letter strings)
3779 string.bytepairs (two bytes)
3780 string.utfcharacters (a one-character utf-8 string)
3781 string.utfvalues (a unicode code point number)
3783 * The top 256 values of the unicode range (starting at hex
3784 value "10FF00) are now reserved for byte output. Characters
3785 in that range will be written by luatex after substracting
3786 that offset. The net result is that \char"10FFA9 is written
3787 as byte value hex A9 = decimal 169 = copyright sign in latin1
3789 This trick allows byte-oriented output to \pdfliterals and
3790 \specials, but should be considered very experimental.
3792 * There is a new callback called 'process_input_buffer' that can
3793 be used to mutate the line buffer just before LuaTeX actually
3794 starts looking at it.
3796 * The statistics table now has readable items
3798 statistics.lasterrorstring
3799 that represent TeX's current input id and the last error string
3801 * The show_error_hook callback no longer receives any arguments
3803 * The statistics table now has readable items
3804 statistics.luabytecodes
3805 statistics.luastates
3806 statistics.luabytecode_bytes
3807 statistics.luastate_bytes
3808 for memory statistics reporting
3811 * The statistics table now has readable items
3812 statistics.luabytecodes
3813 statistics.luastates
3814 statistics.luabytecode_bytes
3815 statistics.luastate_bytes
3816 for memory statistics reporting
3819 ==============================================================
3820 Luatex snapshot-20061204 was released 20061204
3821 ==============================================================
3823 * The LuaTeX interpreter can now be run as a standalone lua script
3824 processor, by using a commandline like this:
3826 luatex --luaonly=luatools.lua
3828 * Luafilesystem (http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem/ ) is
3831 * There are a total of eight new file discovery callbacks:
3840 this enhances the orthogonality of the callback system, nothing
3841 fundamental is changed.
3843 * There is a new callback called 'process_input_buffer' that can
3844 be used to mutate the line buffer just before LuaTeX actually
3845 starts looking at it.
3847 * The 'reader' and 'close' functions from 'open_read_file' now
3848 receive the table they are defined in as a function argument,
3849 that can be used as a per file localized data store.
3851 * Updated the Lua to the latest 5.1.1, with all known bug patches
3852 from the website applied as well
3854 * Runtime autoloading of lua .so files is now off on all platforms.
3856 * The statistics table now has readable items
3858 statistics.linenumber
3859 that represent TeX's current file name and line number
3861 * The support for user-defined type3 font .pgc files and the
3862 associated 'read_miscfonts_file' callback has been removed.
3863 (nobody used it anyway)
3865 * General cleanups to the source tree and build process.
3867 ==============================================================
3868 Luatex snapshot-20061023 was released 20061023
3869 ==============================================================
3871 * there was a missing callback: find_font_file
3872 * program_invocation_name was not set
3873 * buf_size could not be more that 300k
3876 ==============================================================
3877 Luatex snapshot-20061013 was released 20061013
3878 ==============================================================
3880 Last friday I uploaded a new snapshot and today I finally
3881 finished updating the manual to go with it. The changes all
3882 relate to startup, file i/o, and callbacks. The main achievement
3883 is: you can now run luatex without it *ever* initializing kpathsea.
3885 Because I am lazy, I have checked in the pdf of the manual
3886 as well, so that I can say: Please look at
3888 https://foundry.supelec.fr/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/manual/
3889 /luatexref-t.pdf?root=luatex&rev=148&view=log
3891 for all the details. :-)
3893 ==============================================================
3894 Luatex snapshot-20061002 was released 20061002
3895 ==============================================================
3898 * Some infrastructure changes:
3900 libs/slnunicode-0.9.1/ renamed to libs/slnunicode/
3904 (zziplib is using a different version of autofoo. I know I have
3905 messed up something in the build process, but the bit we need
3906 compiles ok so I've postponed attempting to fix it)
3908 * The callback logic has changed quite a bit.
3910 - all callbacks are now only possible in lua state 0.
3912 - The callback 'input_line' has disappeared, and is replaced by
3913 'open_read_file'. One of the return values of that callback
3914 is a table that defines a 'reader' function for line reading.
3916 See the manual for further information on this.
3918 - There are some new callbacks for the reading of various binary
3919 files. The current ones are:
3921 "read_ocp_file", "read_vf_file", "read_data_file", "read_font_file",
3924 The rest of the file types will follow soon (fonts, enc files, and
3927 - There are also some new callbacks that 'find' a file's pathname:
3929 "find_truetype_file", "find_type1_file", "find_image_file"
3931 here too, more will follow later.
3933 - the functions from io. that were copied to texio have been removed
3934 again. The new callbacks do not pass file pointers around, so
3935 they ere not longer needed
3937 - the 'open_write_file' is temporarily unavailable
3939 * startup.lua is now always loaded into lua state 0
3941 * The luazip library from kepler is linked in, so there the table 'zip'
3942 is accessible from all lua states.
3944 ==============================================================
3945 Luatex snapshot-20060922 was released 20060922
3946 ==============================================================
3948 * The texio table has gained a new function:
3950 tex_file = texio.open(filename)
3952 returns a file handle of a type that luatex can use
3953 internally (the return of io.open is unusable in callbacks
3954 because it will be garbage-collected at a random time)
3957 * In related news, there are two new callbacks you can define:
3959 callback.register('open_read_file', f)
3960 callback.register('open_write_file', f)
3962 where your function should have the following conventions:
3964 function f (number id_number, string asked_name)
3965 return boolean success, string actual_name, tex_file filep
3968 id_number: zero for the log or \input files or TeX's \read
3969 number incremented by one (\read0 becomes 1).
3970 asked_name: the user-supplied filename
3972 success: return false for error, true otherwise.
3974 The remaining two items are only looked at if you return true:
3976 actual_name: the true filename used (with extension!)
3977 filep: a file object opened though texio.open()
3980 * The tex.print function has an extra optional parameter:
3982 tex.print(ctt_id n, strings ...)
3984 This prints the strings using the catcode regime defined by
3985 \catcodetable n (assuming n is valid, see below)
3987 * The new function tex.sprint has the same lua conventions as
3988 tex.print, but behaces slightly different on the tex side:
3990 ** tex does not switch to the 'new_line' state (this implies
3991 that leading spaces are not ignored)
3992 ** no \endlinechars are inserted
3993 ** trailing spaces are not removed from the argument
3995 * Catcode tables are a completely new feature, that allows
3996 you to switch the current catcode regime in one simple
3999 \catcodetable <count>
4001 Switches to the use of a different set of catcodes (table),
4002 that is stored under the number <count>. Such a table has to
4003 be previously created using one of the two command below, or
4004 the number 0 (which is pre-inititialized)
4006 This command obeys normal grouping rules.
4008 \initcatcodetable <count>
4010 creates a new, global, independent catcode table with catcodes
4011 matching the code that are predefined by initex (tex -ini).
4013 This allocation is global
4015 \savecatcodetable <count>
4017 copies the current set of catcodes to a new, global, table
4018 with id number <count>. The definitions in this new table
4019 are all treated as if they were made in the outermost level.
4021 This allocation is global
4023 At the end of each grouping level, items within all existing
4024 catcodetables are restored, regardless of which one is the
4025 currently active table.
4027 Catcode table numbers cannot be larger than 0xFFFFFFF (228-1)
4029 * There is a new lua table: lua. It contains three read-only
4032 lua.id -- the id number of the instance
4033 lua.version -- a luatex version identifier string
4034 lua.startupfile -- the full filename (+path) of startup.lua
4036 and it also contains a read/write array:
4038 lua.bytecode[] -- lua executable bytecode
4040 This array can be used to save and restore lua functions
4041 across lua states. The accepted values are for assignments
4042 are functions and nil. Likewise, the retrieved value is
4043 either a function or nil.
4045 The contents of the lua.bytecode array is stored inside the
4046 format file, so it can also be used to preload lua code.
4049 * The format files are quire a bit smaller than before
4052 ==============================================================
4053 Luatex snapshot-20060915 was released 20060915
4054 ==============================================================
4056 * There is a new TEX primitive: \formatname. It is similar
4057 to \jobname (read-only). In initex, the expansion is empty,
4058 otherwise the expansion is the same as the \jobname from
4061 * the lua "tex" table has been expanded with a few of the 'convert'
4062 codes (read-only). The supported ones at this moment are:
4069 tex.pdfnormaldeviate
4076 This list looks haphazard, but it really is not. These are
4077 all the cases of the 'convert' internal command that do not
4078 require an argument.
4080 * The metatables of the subtables like tex.dimen[] etc. are now
4081 adjustable from lua (not that I recommend doing that;-)).
4083 * On the lua side, there is a new global value: "luaid"
4084 It holds the internal id number of this \directlua instance.
4086 * There is a new lua table, "callback", that has the single function
4087 "callback.register", used to register callbacks. This replaces
4088 the previous concoction (see my message about snapshot 20060901).
4091 callback.register(<callback name>,function (f) ... end)
4093 where the <callback name> is for the moment, either "input_line"
4094 or "show_error_hook".
4096 This function internalizes the callback function in such a way
4097 that you no longer have to worry about \luacallback (which has
4098 been removed), nor does it matter if you redefine a function
4101 The internal testing for callback presence is also quite a bit
4102 faster, thanks to this change. Callback assignments are global
4103 and the "input_line" always takes effect starting on the next
4104 input line to be read from an actual file.
4107 * \detokenizedlua has been removed. It is functionally replaced by
4108 the new function call tex.write("").
4110 Each argument to each call of tex.write () counts as an input
4112 ** all catcodes on that line are either 'space' (for " ") or
4113 'character' for all others.
4114 ** there is no \newlinechar appended.
4116 * The implementation of tex.print() has changed as well:
4118 ** the very last tex.print() line from a \directlua
4119 will no longer have a trailing \newlinechar
4120 (this is very convenient when \directlua is used
4122 ** tex.print() is quite a lot faster than before, and the total amount
4123 of returnable text from a \directlua is now only limited by
4124 available system RAM. However, each separate tex.print ()
4125 argument has to fit in TeX's input buffer.
4127 * The new primitive \luastartup can be set inside the format file
4128 to specify the lua instance number in which a possible runtime
4129 startup.lua script is executed (initex always uses 0)
4131 * There is a new primitive \scantextokens. Differences with
4132 eTeX's \scantokens are:
4134 ** the last line (usually only) from \scantextokens
4135 does not have a \newlinechar
4137 ** \scantextokens never raises an eof error.
4139 This means things like
4142 {\scantextokens{\ifnum1=1 true}\else false\fi}
4144 are legal input (but potentially dangerous!).
4147 local d = tex.dimen["unknowndimen"]
4148 'd' will now become "nil" instead of raising an error
4151 tex.dimen["unknowndimen"] = d
4152 is still (and probably will remain) illegal
4154 ==============================================================
4155 Luatex snapshot-20060908 was released 20060908
4156 ==============================================================
4158 * BIG CHANGE: \directlua now runs \scantokens internally.
4160 There is no longer a need to call scantokens yourself, the
4161 tex.print() output is now fed straight into a pseudo file.
4162 This is quite a bit faster as well as easier to use, but
4163 just in case you want it, the old behaviour is still present,
4169 * The texio library now has its own (partial) set of I/O commands,
4170 so that the standard lua io library is back to the distributed
4171 state (no more patched garbage collector)
4173 Note: This is really a very small change (it should not have any
4174 impact on wellbehaved input files), but I attempt to be complete
4175 in these notes, since there is no official documentation yet.
4178 * There is a new standard library available: kpse
4180 The most important function in that library is find_file:
4182 string = kpse.find_file(string filename
4184 [,boolean mustexist])
4186 both "type" and "mustexist" are optional, so the function
4187 has from one upto three arguments.
4189 "type" is like the '-format' argument of kpsewhich. You can
4190 run 'kpsewich -h' for a list. The default type is "tex".
4192 "mustexist" is like '-must-exist', and the default is false.
4193 If you specify "true" (or a nonzero integer), then the kpse
4194 library will search the disk as well as the ls-R databases
4196 The new library also has three other functions that map
4197 straight to kpsewhich commandline options:
4199 string = kpse.expand_path(string)
4200 string = kpse.expand_var(string)
4201 string = kpse.expand_braces(string)
4203 * There is a second callback possibility:
4205 texio.show_error_hook(string message,
4206 string|number indicator,
4209 This command is run from inside the TeX error function, and the
4210 idea is to allow you to do some extra reporting on top of what
4211 TeX already does (none of the normal actions are removed).
4213 "message" is the formal error message tex has given to the
4214 user (the line after the "! ")
4215 "indicator" is either a filename (when it is a string) or a
4216 location indicator (a number) that can means lots of different
4217 things like a token list id or a \read number.
4218 "lineno" is the current line number
4220 This is an investigative item only, comments are welcome but do
4221 not take the syntax seriously.
4223 The final goal IMO is the total replacement of TeX's error
4224 handling routines, but that needs lots of adjustments
4225 in the web source because TeX deals with errors in a somewhat
4226 haphazard fashion (it needs unification first). The current
4227 hook is only for 'testing the water'.
4229 * It is now possible to use named items in the
4235 subtables, so you can have
4237 tex.count.scratchcounter = 0
4238 local enormous = tex.dimen["maxdimen"]
4240 Luatex looks up the value for you on the fly. You have to use a
4241 valid \countdef (or \dimendef, or \toksdef), anything else will
4244 In a normal TeX file, you don't do \dimen\maxdimen, but the
4245 lua syntax seems to be a bit cleaner to me. The intention is
4246 to evntually also allow \chardefs and macros that expand
4247 into a number (todo)
4250 * The tex table has also been extended with a large list of internal
4251 parameters (partially read/write). It is possible to access
4252 about every primitive that you can use after \the *and* is a
4253 single token. So there is
4255 integer = tex.tracingcommands (\the\tracingcommands)
4256 integer = tex.prevgraf (\the\prevgraf)
4257 string = tex.output (\the\output)
4259 etc. for all of the internal parameters, but not the items
4260 that need extra arguments (like \the\scriptfont )
4262 The subset comprising simple integer and dimension registers
4263 are writable as well as readable (stuff like \tracingcommands
4266 The fact that both lists are still quite limited is a result of
4267 the very different types of things that can occur after \the and
4268 also on the LHS of an assignment. The remaining primitives will
4269 be filled in when there is a real need or implementation becomes
4270 simple, whichever comes first.
4274 ==============================================================
4275 Luatex snapshot-20060901 was released 20060901
4276 ==============================================================
4278 All changes are related to lua this time, and most are quite unstable
4279 / experimental. But first the things that are stabel/fixed bugs:
4281 * A VF loading bug that turned up in some of Hans' fonts
4284 * A small series of bounds checking fixes to \ocplist has been
4285 added to prevent the system from crashing due to array indexes
4286 running out of bounds.
4288 * The Lua file searching paths are now fixed. The search path for lua
4289 script files now contains the following items (tried in order)
4290 1. the local directory:
4292 (for document-specific files)
4293 2. the items from the expansion of kpathsea's $TEXMFSCRIPTS variable,
4294 but only the parts containing 'lua' as a subpath:
4295 $TEXMFSCRIPTS<lua>/?.lua
4296 $TEXMFSCRIPTS<lua>/?/init.lua
4297 (for format-specific files)
4298 3. the $SELFAUTOPARENT sibling directory named 'lib'.
4299 $SELFAUTOPARENT/lib/lua/5.1/?.lua
4300 $SELFAUTOPARENT/lib/lua/5.1/?/init.lua
4301 (for files that are not related to tex)
4303 The search path for dynamic libraries has only
4304 1. the local directory:
4306 (for document-specific files)
4307 2. and the $SELFAUTOPARENT sibling directory named 'lib'.
4308 $SELFAUTOPARENT/lib/lua/5.1/?.so
4310 (of course the extension is .dll on windows, but .dlls do not
4311 work at the moment so it will not do you much good)
4313 * There are two functions available within a new table called
4315 texio.write (luastring)
4316 texio.write_nl (luastring)
4317 both write the luastring to the same location(s) TeX writes
4318 its stuff. So if \batchmode is on, it writes only to the
4319 log, inside a \write, it prints to the current write file,
4322 A read|write interface to TeX's "file selector" will
4325 * At startup, luatex searches for a script named
4327 in the path list I explained above. If such a file exists, it is
4330 This happens right before the first input file needs to be opened
4331 (that is after format loading, but before any \everyjob tokens).
4333 From within the script, you can check the value of
4337 that is the 'format identification' as used by TEX. When the variable
4338 is equal to nil, luatex in in 'initex' mode, otherwise it will be
4339 something like: " (format=plain 2006.9.1)"
4342 Now for the experimental portion: callbacks. Here is what I have done
4345 * The main reason for wanting startup.lua is file (input) re-encoding.
4346 For this purpose, it is now possible to set up a callback for
4349 If you attach a Lua function to
4353 then from the next input line onwards, luatex will run that
4354 function whenever it needs a new input line from a text file.
4356 Your function will receive a file handle as argument, and
4357 should return either a string or nil (with nil signalling that
4358 the end of file has occurred).
4360 The trivial case is simply this:
4365 texio.input_line = reader
4368 Warning: The implementation is not totally finished yet. For the
4369 moment the file handle ("f" in the example) is a normal lua file,
4370 with a simple but important restriction: you cannot alter its value.
4371 You cannot f:close() it, or assign it a different value. luatex
4372 will eventually close the file itself.
4374 The restriction is a side-effect of a synchronisation problem with
4375 the lua garbage collector. Because of this, it also was necessary
4376 to turn off the automatic file closing code for normal lua io
4377 files (In other words: you have to close yourself all the files
4378 you opened yourself, and you should not close any files you did
4381 In the near future, "f" will become a special 'texio' file object
4382 and the needed functionality from the normal io library will be
4383 reimplemented. Along with that change, there will also be a callback
4384 to open (i.e. find) files, and a simple interface to the compiled-in
4385 kpathsea to use within that callback.
4388 ==============================================================
4389 Luatex snapshot-20060825 was released 20060825
4390 ==============================================================
4392 The main change in this snapshot is that it uses far less memory.
4393 luatex -ini on my linux machine went from 326Mb (last week) to
4394 93Mb (now), and "texexec luatex" now ends at 184Mb instead of
4397 This is achieved by two big changes:
4399 * The \mathcode, \delcode, \catcode, \sfcode, \lccode and \uccode
4400 tables are now sparse arrays that are implemented in C. They
4401 are no longer part of the TeX "equivalence table" and because
4402 each had 1.1 million entries with a few memory words each, this
4403 makes a major difference.
4405 See mathcodes.c and textcodes.c if you are interested in the
4406 gory details, but be warned: the code is still extremely
4407 rough and ugly. In particular, the dump and undump routines
4408 are far from optimal, resulting in somewhat larger format files
4409 than before (approx 1.3Mb larger with unicode-letters loaded,
4410 10k without); and the assignments do not show up when using
4411 the etex tracing routines \tracingassigns and \tracingrestores
4412 (code simply not written yet)
4414 * Single-character commands are no longer "special" internally,
4415 they are stored in the hash just like the multiletter csnames.
4418 ==============================================================
4419 Luatex snapshot-20060818 was released 20060818
4420 ==============================================================
4422 The snapshot is up to par with Aleph-RC4 (from texlive devel)
4423 and the latest pdftex beta (even newer than 20060811). However,
4424 there are some differences, to summarize:
4426 * There is no pool file (all strings are embedded)
4428 * -8bit and -translate-file are silently ignored
4430 * There is no mltex nor enctex (conflicts with aleph)
4432 * The tex functionality is always present and enabled
4433 (but see below about TeXXeT), so the asterisk or
4434 -etex switch for initex is not needed
4436 * "plus 1 filllllllll" does not generate any errors from TeX
4438 * TeXXeT (from eTeX) is not present, so the primives
4446 * The experimental pdftex regex match operations are removed,
4447 because that feature does not make much sense when lua is
4448 available so the primitives
4453 * The input translations from Aleph are not implemented, the
4454 16 related primitives are all missing
4460 \noDefaultOutputMode
4463 \DefaultInputTranslation
4464 \noDefaultInputTranslation
4467 \DefaultOutputTranslation
4468 \noDefaultOutputTranslation
4469 \noOutputTranslation
4471 All file IO assumes UTF-8, except that all the low-ascii
4472 controls except TAB, CR en LF are written to the terminal
4473 using ^^ notation (even these are binary in the log file).
4475 * Input characters can use the full range of Unicode,
4476 but it probably only makes sense to use values above
4477 the base plane for \mathcode and \catcode assignments,
4478 since the fonts as well as the hyphenation patterns
4479 are strictly 16-bit still.
4482 \pdfpagewidth and \pagewidth,
4483 \pdfpageheight and \pageheight,
4484 \fontcharwd and \charwd,
4485 \fontcharht and \charht,
4486 \fontchardp and \chardp,
4487 \fontcharic and \charic,
4488 are all aliases of eachother.
4492 clears a marks class completely.
4494 * The experimental pdftex primitives
4499 and provided without the extra 'pdf' prefix, so they are
4507 * I probably forgot to mention some things :-)