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| author | Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> | 2018-09-30 20:33:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Context Git Mirror Bot <phg@phi-gamma.net> | 2018-09-30 20:33:04 +0200 |
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diff --git a/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/interaction/interaction-javascript.tex b/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/interaction/interaction-javascript.tex index d578fa416..57ce54fb1 100644 --- a/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/interaction/interaction-javascript.tex +++ b/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/interaction/interaction-javascript.tex @@ -77,6 +77,17 @@ The full repertoire of commands is: \showsetup{setJSpreamble} +As we're into \LUA\ and because \LUA\ is so lightweight I've wondered several +times now if it would make sense to embed \LUA\ in \PDF\ viewers. After all, +annotations are an extension mechanism. In the early days of \PDF\ this was +actually quite doable because \ACROBAT\ reader (and exchange) had a plugin model. +However, the more functionality ended up in the program, the least interesting +(and popular) the plugins mechanism became. Some open source viewers have an +\API\ so in principle adding the lightweight \LUA\ interpreter (of course with +\LPEG, and quite probably without file \IO) is possible. It has been discussed at +a recent \CONTEXT\ meeting, so who knows \unknown For now we're stuck with +\JAVASCRIPT. + \stopchapter \stopcomponent |