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authorHans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>2018-09-26 15:15:30 +0200
committerContext Git Mirror Bot <phg@phi-gamma.net>2018-09-26 15:15:30 +0200
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-rw-r--r--doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luatex/luatex-fonts.tex12
-rw-r--r--doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luatex/luatex-nodes.tex3
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luatex/luatex-fonts.tex b/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luatex/luatex-fonts.tex
index 189e3295e..6f71877fb 100644
--- a/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luatex/luatex-fonts.tex
+++ b/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luatex/luatex-fonts.tex
@@ -713,9 +713,15 @@ font.setfont(<number> n, <table> f)
\stopfunctioncall
Note that at the moment, each access to the \type {font.fonts} or call to \type
-{font.getfont} creates a \LUA\ table for the whole font. This process can be
-quite slow. In a later version of \LUATEX, this interface will change (it will
-start using userdata objects instead of actual tables).
+{font.getfont} creates a \LUA\ table for the whole font unless you cached it.
+This process can be quite slow.
+
+\startfunctioncall
+<table> p = font.getparameters(<number> n)
+\stopfunctioncall
+
+This one will return a table of the parameters as known to \TEX. These can be
+different from the ones in the cached table.
Also note the following: assignments can only be made to fonts that have already
been defined in \TEX, but have not been accessed {\it at all\/} since that
diff --git a/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luatex/luatex-nodes.tex b/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luatex/luatex-nodes.tex
index 2793a1af7..40324cd7b 100644
--- a/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luatex/luatex-nodes.tex
+++ b/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luatex/luatex-nodes.tex
@@ -312,7 +312,8 @@ to make the encapsulating box fit its dimensions. For instance, in a paragraph
lines normally have glue representing spaces and these stretch or shrink to make
the content fit in the available space. The \type {effective_glue} function that
takes a glue node and a parent (hlist or vlist) returns the effective width of
-that glue item.
+that glue item. When you pass \type {true} as third argument the value will be
+rounded.
A \nod {glue_spec} node is a special kind of node that is used for storing a set
of glue values in registers. Originally they were also used to store properties