On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 10:32:09PM +0000, Joseph Wright wrote: > On 02/01/2011 18:49, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >Again, my main question is: if they can keep doing what they do right > >now with pdftex (since luatex should be supporting all of it), why not > >give the extra functionality to the people who want/need it; programming > >to the least common denominator is just tying the users of new engines > >by the limitation of old ones. > > > >I'm not suggesting that any one do any thing, I'm just trying to > >understand. > > As I said before, changes are likely to be driven by code > requirements. If there is a point where there is something that we > want to do (i.e. a core LaTeX3 function rather than something which > is optional) that cannot be done with pdfTeX, then there will be > some 'vigorous discussion' and hopefully a sensible outcome. I got the point, thanks for explanation. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer