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diff --git a/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luametatex/luametatex-enhancements.tex b/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luametatex/luametatex-enhancements.tex index caf4dc55a..bdac9047c 100644 --- a/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luametatex/luametatex-enhancements.tex +++ b/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luametatex/luametatex-enhancements.tex @@ -133,8 +133,6 @@ other engines; \LUAMETATEX\ is already quite different anyway. \startsubsection[title={Version information}] -\startsubsubsection[title={\prm {luatexbanner}, \prm {luatexversion} and \prm {luatexrevision}}] - \topicindex{version} \topicindex{banner} @@ -186,7 +184,15 @@ A version is defined as follows: \stopitem \stopitemize -\stopsubsubsection +The \LUATEX\ binary has companions like \LUAJITTEX\ and a version that has a font +rendering library on board. Both introduce dependencies that don't fit into the +\LUAMETATEX\ agenda: compilation should be easy and future proof and not depend +on code outside the source tree. It means that for instance the \CONTEXT\ runners +don't really need to check much more than the basic name. It also means that the +\type {context} and \type {mtxrun} stubs can be symbolic links to the main +program that itself is about 3MB, so we can keep the binary footprint small. For +normal \CONTEXT\ \LMTX\ processing no other binaries are needed because whatever +support we need is done in \LUA. The \LUAMETATEX\ version number starts at~2 in order to prevent a clash with \LUATEX, and the version commands are the same. This is a way to indicate that |