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* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting How to edit wiki pages]
 
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting How to edit wiki pages]
* [[Mailing Lists|Mailing List]]: List archives at [ mailman interface]
 
 
* [[Bug tracking|Bug tracking]]: Mantis [http://tracker.luatex.org bug tracker]
 
* [[Bug tracking|Bug tracking]]: Mantis [http://tracker.luatex.org bug tracker]
  
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* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* 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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* An example of code [[traversing TeX nodes]] before an horizontal list goes through the line breaking engine;
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* An example of code [[traversing tokens]] just before execution or expansion;
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* you want to [[explore the table obtained from a TrueType font]], loaded by <tt>font.read_ttf</tt>;
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* 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;
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* how to [[use a TrueType font]] without going through a TFM or a OFM file;
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* how to do <i>kinsoku</i> ([[Japanese and more generally CJK typesetting]]);
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* you want a newline in your log file or on the terminal? add <tt>\string\n</tt> to your string;
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* you want to [[sort a token list]];
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* you want to [[split a comma-separated list]];
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* you want to [[encrypt your document using ROT13]];
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* you want to [[typeset non-TeX files by converting them using Lua code]];
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* example code to [[mirror characters with Bidi_Mirrored property]];
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* using mplib to write [[metapost with LuaTeX]]

Revision as of 22:02, 7 December 2010

Welcome to the LuaTeX wiki

This is a wiki for LuaTeX, a typesetting engine derived from TeX that includes Lua as an embedded scripting language.

We are currently editing 18 articles.

Getting help

Some topics from the old wiki at bluwiki.com