- LuaTeX
Infobox Software
name = LuaTeX
author =Taco Hoekwater ,Hartmut Henkel ,Hans Hagen
developer = Taco Hoekwater, Hartmut Henkel, Hans Hagen
operating_system = Multiplatform
genre = Typesetting
license =GNU General Public License
website = [http://www.luatex.org/ www.luatex.org]LuaTeX started as a version of
pdfTeX with a Lua scripting engine embedded. After some experiments it was adopted as a successor to pdfTeX, which is a merge betweenTeX andeTeX with aPDF backend. Later in the project some functionality of Aleph was included (esp. multi-directional typesetting). The project is sponsored by the Oriental TeX project.The first public beta was launched at TUG 2007 in
San Diego . The first formal release will happen at the end of 2009, and the first stable production version will be available in 2010. The main objective of the project is to provide a version of TeX where all internals are accessible from Lua. In the process of opening up TeX, much of the internal code is rewritten. Instead of hard coding new features in TeX itself, users (or macro package writers) can write their own extensions.LuaTeX offers native support forOpenType fonts. In contrast toXeTeX , the fonts are not accessed through the operating system libraries, but through a library based onFontForge .A related project is
MPLib (an extendedMetaPost library module), which brings a graphics engine into TeX.The LuaTeX team is: Taco Hoekwater, Hartmut Henkel and Hans Hagen.
LuaTeX 0.25.4 is included in
TeXLive 2008. Currently the only way to use it is withConTeXt mark IV.LaTeX or plain TeX are not yet supported.External links
* [http://www.luatex.org/ LuaTeX official site]
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