The history of luaTEX 2006–2009 / v 0.50 - Pragma ADE

Contents
Introduction 3
I From MkII to MkIV 5
II How Lua ts in 7
III Initialization revised 19
IV An example: CalcMath 23
V Going utf 27
VI A fresh look at fonts 31
VII Token speak 47
VIII How about performance 57
IX Nodes and attributes 65
X Dirty tricks 75
XI Going beta 79
XII Zapng fonts 87
XIII Arabic 99
XIV Colors redone 107
XV Chinese, Japanese and Korean, aka CJK 117
XVI Optimization 125
XVII XML revisioned 131
XVIII Breaking apart 145
XIX Collecting garbage 151
XX Nice to know 163
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