User:Oneiros/Taco Hoekwater

Taco Hoekwater (born in 1969 in Netherlands) is the main developer of LuaTeX, and MetaPost/MPlib. He has been the first user of ConTeXt outside of PRAGMA ADE and works in tight cooperation with Hans Hagen to develop TeX engines and macros for ConTeXt ever since.

Around 2005 he took over development of MetaPost, originally written by John Hobby, to implement some features needed in ConTeXt and by Polish MetaType1 font developers. During the development of ConTeXt MK IV he turned it into a library called MPlib to improve efficiency and gain speed in ConTeXt which is known for a heavy use of MetaPost graphics.

He has been the president of the Dutch language-oriented TeX users group (NTG) since 2009 and main editor of the user group's magazine MAPS.

He was the first and main organizer of ConTeXt User Meetings, the first one being hosted in Epen, Netherlands in 2007, followed by the joint EuroTeX & 3rd ConTeXt Meeting in The Hague in 2009. Together with Hans Hagen they have been responsible for the programme ever since.

Development and packages

 * LuaTeX (main developer)
 * MetaPost and MPlib (main developer)
 * bibliography module for ConTeXt
 * Escrito, the PostScript interpreter in Lua
 * The Cow Font, designed by Duane Bibby