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jperon / lyluatex

Alternative à lilypond-book pour lualatex

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lyluatextools #252

Closed jperon closed 5 years ago

jperon commented 5 years ago

All options in one auxiliary package. Closes #251.

uliska commented 5 years ago

@jperon I think on the long run we should talk about moving that code to a completely independent package (also without the lyluatex part in the name). At least I will immediately make use of it in packages that don't make use of lyluatex. And I think this could become a generally useful toolkit for developing LuaTeX packages. I don't have sufficient experience with that but it might be worth raising this on the luatex mailing list, what do you think?

jperon commented 5 years ago

@uliska I think it's a good idea to raise it on the luatex mailing list. I see at least two points, especially with lyluatex-lib.lua:

how to deal with versions ? Some breaking changes could become a real headache if some packages depend on it (that's a recurring problem with libraries in general);
some "stdlibs" for lua already exist: penlight, lua-stdlib... Wouldn't it be worth creating a package for one of those on CTAN, rather than inventing a new one ?

jperon commented 5 years ago

@uliska I've just checked, and seen that there already is a lualibs package on CTAN. I didn't look further, but I'm fairly sure it would cover most of what lyluatex-lib does.

uliska commented 5 years ago

OK, one day I'll look into that @jperon . Seems like we should better see whether we can use such existing functionality wherever we can avoid writing custom functions.