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author | Philipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net> | 2015-11-06 00:02:56 +0100 |
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committer | Philipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net> | 2015-11-06 00:02:56 +0100 |
commit | 6a7d1e67bb6e6fd073450a104ebe3ca934eaf14c (patch) | |
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[doc] update manual wrt files
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diff --git a/doc/luaotfload-main.tex b/doc/luaotfload-main.tex index 8f548fa..a5ed940 100644 --- a/doc/luaotfload-main.tex +++ b/doc/luaotfload-main.tex @@ -1056,23 +1056,21 @@ An example with explicit paths: \endsection %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -\beginsection {Files from \CONTEXT and \LUATEX-Fonts} +\beginsection {The Fontloader Package} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -\identifier{luaotfload} relies on code originally written by Hans -Hagen for the \hyperlink[\identifier{\CONTEXT}]{http://wiki.contextgarden.net} +To a large extent, \identifier{luaotfload} relies on code originally +written by Hans Hagen for the +\hyperlink[\identifier{\CONTEXT}]{http://wiki.contextgarden.net} format. % -It integrates the font loader as distributed in -the \identifier{\LUATEX-Fonts} package. +It integrates the font loader, written entirely in \LUA, as distributed +in the \identifier{\LUATEX-Fonts} package. % The original \LUA source files have been combined using the -\fileent{mtx-package} script into a single, self-contained blob. -In this form the font loader has no further dependencies\footnote{% - It covers, however, to some extent the functionality of the - \identifier{lualibs} package. -} -and requires only minor adaptions to integrate into +\fileent{mtx-package} script into a single, self-contained blob. In +this form the font loader depends only on the \identifier{lualibs} +package and requires only minor adaptions to integrate into \identifier{luaotfload}. % The guiding principle is to let \CONTEXT/\LUATEX-Fonts take care of @@ -1093,13 +1091,13 @@ Below is a commented list of the files distributed with See figure \ref{file-graph} on page \pageref{file-graph} for a graphical representation of the dependencies. % -From \LUATEX-Fonts, only the file \fileent{luatex-fonts-merged.lua} -has been imported as \fileent{luaotfload-fontloader.lua}. -% -It is generated by \fileent{mtx-package}, a \LUA source code merging -too developed by Hans Hagen.\footnote{% - \fileent{mtx-package} is - \hyperlink [part of \CONTEXT]{http://repo.or.cz/w/context.git/blob_plain/refs/heads/origin:/scripts/context/lua/mtx-package.lua} +Through the script \fileent{luaotfload-package.lua} the \CONTEXT +utility \fileent{mtx-package} is invoked to create the +\identifier{luaotfload} fontloader as a merged (amalgamated) source +file.\footnote{% + \fileent{mtx-package}, a \LUA source code merging tool developed by + Hans Hagen, is + \hyperlink [part of \CONTEXT]{https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/src/726a663be481042003566d4614266b940b5a0c91/scripts/context/lua/mtx-package.lua?at=beta} and requires \fileent{mtxrun}. Run \inlinecode {mtxrun --script package --help} @@ -1107,31 +1105,46 @@ too developed by Hans Hagen.\footnote{% For the actual merging code see the file \fileent{util-mrg.lua} that is part of \CONTEXT. } -It houses several \LUA files that can be classed in three -categories. +% +This file constitutes the “reference fontloader” and is part of the +\identifier{luaotfload} package as \fileent{fontloader-reference.lua}. +A companion to it, \fileent{luatex-basics-gen.lua} must be loaded +beforehand to set up parts of the environment required by the \CONTEXT +libraries. +% +During a \TEX\ run, the fontloader initialization and injection happens +in the module \fileent{luaotfload-init.lua}. + +A number of \emphasis{\LUA utility libraries} that are already provided +by \identifier{lualibs} package are not part of the \identifier{luaotfload} +fontloader.\footnote{% + Faithful listeners will remember the pre-2.6 era when the fontloader + used to be integrated as-is which caused all kinds of code + duplication with the pervasive \identifier{Lualibs} package. + This conceptual glitch has since been amended by tightening the + coupling with the excellent \CONTEXT\ toolchain. +} +\beginnarrower + \begindoublecolumns + \begindefinitions + \beginaltitem {l-lua.lua} \endaltitem + \beginaltitem {l-lpeg.lua} \endaltitem + \beginaltitem {l-function.lua} \endaltitem + \beginaltitem {l-string.lua} \endaltitem + \beginaltitem {l-table.lua} \endaltitem + \beginaltitem {l-io.lua} \endaltitem + \beginaltitem {l-file.lua} \endaltitem + \beginaltitem {l-boolean.lua} \endaltitem + \beginaltitem {l-math.lua} \endaltitem + \beginaltitem {util-str.lua} \endaltitem + \enddefinitions + \enddoublecolumns +\endnarrower -\begindefinitions - \beginnormalitem - \emphasis{\LUA utility libraries}, a subset - of what is provided by the \identifier{lualibs} - package. - - \begindoublecolumns - \begindefinitions - \beginaltitem {l-lua.lua} \endaltitem - \beginaltitem {l-lpeg.lua} \endaltitem - \beginaltitem {l-function.lua} \endaltitem - \beginaltitem {l-string.lua} \endaltitem - \beginaltitem {l-table.lua} \endaltitem - \beginaltitem {l-io.lua} \endaltitem - \beginaltitem {l-file.lua} \endaltitem - \beginaltitem {l-boolean.lua} \endaltitem - \beginaltitem {l-math.lua} \endaltitem - \beginaltitem {util-str.lua} \endaltitem - \enddefinitions - \enddoublecolumns - \endnormalitem +The reference fontloader is home to several \LUA files that can be +grouped twofold as below: +\begindefinitions \beginnormalitem The \emphasis{font loader} itself. These files have been written for @@ -1139,7 +1152,6 @@ categories. with \identifier{luaotfload}. \begindoublecolumns \begindefinitions - \beginaltitem{luatex-basics-gen.lua} \endaltitem \beginaltitem{luatex-basics-nod.lua} \endaltitem \beginaltitem{luatex-fonts-enc.lua} \endaltitem \beginaltitem{luatex-fonts-syn.lua} \endaltitem @@ -1209,7 +1221,10 @@ files not contained in the merge. Some of these have no equivalent in font feature handling; incorporates some of the code from \fileent{font-otc} from \CONTEXT; \endaltitem - \beginaltitem {luaotfload-override.lua} + \beginaltitem {luaotfload-configuration.lua} + handling of \fileent{luaotfload.conf(5)}. + \endaltitem + \beginaltitem {luaotfload-log.lua} overrides the \CONTEXT logging functionality. \endaltitem \beginaltitem {luaotfload-loaders.lua} @@ -1222,6 +1237,9 @@ files not contained in the merge. Some of these have no equivalent in \beginaltitem {luaotfload-database.lua} font names database. \endaltitem + \beginaltitem {luaotfload-resolvers.lua} + file name resolvers. + \endaltitem \beginaltitem {luaotfload-colors.lua} color handling. \endaltitem |