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| + | == Welcome to the LuaTeX wiki == | ||
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This is a wiki for [http://www.luatex.org LuaTeX], a typesetting engine derived from | This is a wiki for [http://www.luatex.org LuaTeX], a typesetting engine derived from | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX TeX] that includes [http://www.lua.org Lua] as an embedded scripting language. | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX TeX] that includes [http://www.lua.org Lua] as an embedded scripting language. | ||
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| + | We are [[Special:Recentchanges|currently editing]] [[Special:Allpages|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles. | ||
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| + | * [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting How to edit wiki pages] | ||
| + | * [[Bug tracking|Bug tracking]]: Mantis [http://tracker.luatex.org bug tracker] | ||
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| + | == Getting help == | ||
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| + | * There are two mailing lists related to LuaTeX, [http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/luatex one for general discussions and questions about LuaTeX ("luatex users")] and [http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-luatex one more related to the development of LuaTeX ("dev-luatex")] | ||
| + | * There is also [http://www.tug.org/mailman/listinfo/lualatex-dev a LuaLaTeX (LaTeX with LuaTeX) mailing list]. | ||
| + | * [http://tex.stackexchange.com/ tex.stackexchange.com] is a q&a site for questions related to TeX, and you can ask (and answer) LuaTeX related questions there. | ||
| + | * The [http://www.luatex.org/svn/trunk/manual/luatexref-t.pdf online reference manual (pdf)] describes every aspect of LuaTeX, but is rather technical and concise. | ||
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| + | == Some topics from the old wiki at bluwiki.com == | ||
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| + | (Thanks to [http://omega.enstb.org/yannis/ Yannis Haralambous]) | ||
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| + | * An example of code [[traversing TeX nodes]] before an horizontal list goes through the line breaking engine; | ||
| + | * An example of code [[traversing tokens]] just before execution or expansion; | ||
| + | * you want to [[explore the table obtained from a TrueType font]], loaded by <tt>font.read_ttf</tt>; | ||
| + | * you want to [[explore the internal font table]] of a pre-loaded font or of a font you have loaded by <tt>\font</tt> and then used for at least one glyph; | ||
| + | * how to [[use a TrueType font]] without going through a TFM or a OFM file; | ||
| + | * how to do <i>kinsoku</i> ([[Japanese and more generally CJK typesetting]]); | ||
| + | * you want a newline in your log file or on the terminal? add <tt>\string\n</tt> to your string; | ||
| + | * you want to [[sort a token list]]; | ||
| + | * you want to [[split a comma-separated list]]; | ||
| + | * you want to [[encrypt your document using ROT13]]; | ||
| + | * you want to [[typeset non-TeX files by converting them using Lua code]]; | ||
| + | * example code to [[mirror characters with Bidi_Mirrored property]]; | ||
| + | * using mplib to write [[metapost with LuaTeX]] | ||
