LuaTeX is a Unicode-capable extension of TeX which integrates the scripting language Lua. Use this tag if your question is about LuaTeX or LuaLaTeX specific problems and is not related to standard (La)TeX. For ConTeXt related questions use {context-mkiv}.
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Can the Lua part of LuaTeX know about tokens?
Using \directlua and tex.print, it is possible to send strings of characters back and forth between TeX and Lua. Let's take an example: starting with a macro \A, I pass its replacement text to Lua and ...
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Installing Lua Modules for use in LuaLaTeX
I've done all of the searching that I can, and I think I've read the right answer, but am too dumb to know that I read it.
I can't seem to figure out the magic tricks to get Lua modules, installed by ...
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How to enable ligatures for emdash/endash in LuaTeX ?
I cannot switch on ligatures for emdash (---) and endash (--) in LuaLaTeX. Here is my test file:
% !Mode:: "TeX:UTF-8"
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
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Embedding Type 1C fonts using LuaLaTeX
As pointed out in the answer to PDF file size with LuaLaTeX vs XeLaTeX, the difference between using Type 1 and Type 1C fonts in two documents made a big difference in file size.
File size is ...
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pgfplot: plotting a large dataset
I try to plot a dataset which is large using pgfplots. Since I'm aware of problems with large files, I used the external mode. I additionally increased main_memory from 3000000 to 6000000. It crashes ...
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How to use unicode-math with beamer and lualatex?
According to a recent article in "Die TeXnische Komödie", this should be the way to get Latin Modern Math to work with lualatex and the latest TeXLive 2011:
\documentclass[professionalfonts]{beamer}
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In lualatex, hyphenation doesn't seem to work for words that contain certain ligatures
It would seem that hyphenation does not work properly under LuaLaTeX if the hyphenation points occur at places where TeX inserts ligatures. Consider the following MWE, which (i) provides hyphenation ...
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Why do I need Lua or LaTeX3 in a plain old technical document?
I wrote and maintain a couple hundred page computer related technical spec in XeLaTeX. I use tables, figures, bitfields, algorithms and other typical trappings. I'm intrigued by LuaTeX and LaTeX3, ...
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Replacing greek glyphs in math mode
I want to switch fonts, away from computer modern. I'm pretty sure that I will end up with a mixture of fonts. I can't provide a full list of required features, but Linux Libertine's feature set ...
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btex and etex in luamplib labels
I've been experimenting with METAPOST and in particular with luamplib. I found that I couldn't have tex typeset labels with the btex/etex construct as apparently is possible with straight up METAPOST. ...
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lualatex and line breaks after em-dashes
I’ve just installed TeX Live 2012. As mentioned elsewhere on this site, the release history explains that “the parameter \XeTeXdashbreakstate is set to 1 by default, for both xetex and xelatex. This ...
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Serbian Cyrillic using LuaTeX and XeTeX
This question is directly inspired by Martin Schroder's answer to this question. Namely, I am wondering how would one use LuaTeX or XeTeX to produce Serbian (little bit different than Russian) ...
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Is there a LuaTeX analogue to XeTeXinterchartoks?
Just as the title of the questions says, is there an LuaTeX analogue to XeTeXinterchartoks?
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TikZ Region bounded by points
I have a set of points. I would like to "enclose" the points by a region. Since a picture is worth a thousand words:
The dots are the points I want to enclose. I want the ability to control the ...
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Installing Lua Modules for use in LuaLaTeX - the sequel
There is a question with the same title, Installing Lua Modules for use in LuaLaTeX, that apparently went unresolved. I'm having similar issues and at this point am out of ideas.
I'm running Debian ...
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Print large macro block from Lua to TeX
I have a rather large block of TeX macro code that is no problem to do in TeX but I'd like to create the macro in Lua instead
The macro contains various TeX macro characters (\, %, [, ])
How can I ...
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Analog of \pdfelapsedtime for LuaTeX and XeTeX
In pdfTeX, the \pdfelapsedtime primitive gives access to the time since this pdfTeX run was started, in "scaled seconds" (1/65536 seconds). This is useful to benchmark code: repeat it many times, and ...
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Will LaTeX3 have proper support for hooks? Does LuaTeX?
Tex has powerful support for extensions triggered by events happen in generating output, by running one of six token lists appropriately:
\everycr \everydisplay \everyhbox \everymath \everypar ...
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text figures (old style numbers) and mhchem
How do I achieve lining figures with mhchem while maintaining text figures in the text (lualatex).
My MWE is:
\documentclass{minimal}
\RequirePackage[paperwidth=70mm, paperheight=20mm, left=10pt, ...
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What is the implication of the warning in the fontspec manual with respect to babel and LuaTeX?
In the fontspec manual, there is a section on LuaTeX that states:
babel The babel package is not really supported! Especially Vietnamese, Greek, and Hebrew at least might not work ...
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luacode and ExplSyntaxOn/Off
I'm trying to build some sort of an interface to a lua matrix module. I've navigated a few issues and arrived at something that I felt like I could probably modify to work. Anticipating the need for ...
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Can XeLaTeX | LuaTeX import movies ?
It seems that XeLaTeX cannot handle movies. I imported movies into PDF produced with pdflatex compiler using the multimedia package that comes with beamer. My search over various boards revealed that ...
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How to do a 'printline' in LuaTeX
I have just started exploring the world of LuaTeX and wanted to write a piece of code, that prints a name to a new line in the document.
\directlua{
for i=1,3,1 do
tex.print("FOO")
end
}
which ...
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Luatex os.execute not working
I've hooked luatex's stop_run callback so I can do some processing on the output pdf after it is generated.
To process the pdf I need to call os.execute. When doing so I an error saying "All command ...
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TeX Live manager 2011 database corruption?
TeX Live 2011, up to date, on Windows XP. Example:
\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
A
\end{document}
LuaTeX first error:
LaTeX Warning: You have requested, ...
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In LuaLaTeX, how do I pass the content of an environment to Lua verbatim?
In LuaLaTeX, how would I go about capturing the content of an environment for (verbatim) processing by Lua? For example, consider something like
\begin{foobar}
Hello {World}
\end{foobar}
I'd like ...
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The ^^ notation in various engines
Basically, how does the ^^^... notation work in LuaTeX and XeTeX, exactly?
In 8-bit TeX engines (recent TeX, eTeX, pdfTeX, at least), two consecutive identical catcode 7 characters (typically ^), ...
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Suppress certain ligatures generally
Whether or not certain ligatures should be used (if available in a font) is a least in theory depending on the language used. For example traditional German texts would not have an "ffl" ligature but ...
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Repetition of a word on two lines
This question led to a new feature in a package:
impnattypo
There have been questions about rivers asked in the past. I'm wondering about words that are repeated in the same place on two ...
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Reading data from a relational database into a LaTeX table
I'm using Tex Live 2009 on Debian squeeze. I can upgrade if I really, really have to, but I'd rather not. i was wondering if it would be possible to do the following.
Given some data in a ...
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Selecting main math font in LuaTeX?
I’d to set some fairly simple maths in Minion Pro (and potentially other system fonts), using LuaTeX. I’d hoped that something like the following should work:
\documentclass{minimal}
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Is there latexmk functionality for LuaTeX?
I am a big fan of latexmk and lately I have been looking a bit towards LuaTeX. However I am am yet to find a way to get the functionality of latexmk (mainly recompilation on changes and automatic ...
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using Hoefler Text font under lualatex and MacOSX
I'm having unexpected problems getting the "Hoefler Text" font to work when using LuaLaTeX (under MacTeX2012, all the latest updates installed) on a Mac (MacOS X 10.7.4). The following MWE
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Starting with TeX (not LaTeX)
I've been using LaTeX for 3 years and I'm decided to switch to (plain) TeX. For the moment I'm reading The TeXbook for the third time (I quietly start to read the double-danger signed paragraphs) and ...
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fontspec, lua, microtype: Renderer=Basic no longer working for specific font styles
You may have noticed that, as of now,* letterspacing small capitals is not as easy as it was in pdfTeX, where we could simply combine \textsc with microtype's \textls. Consider this example, which ...
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How do you configure Texmaker to use LuaTeX?
I'm extending my use from pdfLaTeX to LuaLaTeX. However, it does not come pre-configured in the Texmaker editor.
How does one configure Texmaker to use LuaTeX?
(I am using ubuntu 10.4, but this ...
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LuaLaTeX:PGFplots can't read data passed by Lua
I wanted to give a LuaLaTeX answer to this question
Here it is the listing I wrote:
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8
% !TEX program = LuaLaTeX
% !TEX spellcheck = en_GB
\documentclass{standalone}
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Footnote numbers in index (e.g., 23n3)
I'm currently weighing indexing options for a book-length project. One of the more surprising hurdles is that there doesn't seem to be a way to create an index (in my case, several indices) that ...
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Towards a \ucshape and \textuc command for uppercase text (XeTeX, LuaTeX)
While we have \textit and \textsc, \itshape and \scshape etc., there's no \textuc and \ucshape to typeset its argument in uppercase. There is \MakeUppercase, but -- as uppercase is not a font style -- ...
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Ligature suppression algorithm fails if the word in question contains an Umlaut (dieresis) before the ligature
This is a follow-up posting prompted by Taco Hoekwater's recent excellent answer to a question I posed a few months ago. It concerns the use of the ligature suppression algorithm for words (mainly, ...
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Which is the best editor for LuaTeX?
Many (La)TeX editors support the LuaTeX engine. However, which one offers the best support for writing LuaTeX? Which editor or plugin supports features such as syntax highlighting and auto-completion ...
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Ploting a function using mplib in lualatex
This question asked about ways to generate a nice function graph in LaTeX. There are several great answers, however, most of the either rely on an external program to generate the plot, or, if they ...
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Accessing to .log messages from LuaTeX. Is it possible?
Reading the question How to visualize the underfull box in final ouput PDF files I thought that it could be possible to use LuaTeX to intercept the "Underfull vbox" message and draw some kind of ...
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Migrating from pdfTeX to LuaTeX: Problems with reproducing output for legacy projects
I'm currently analyzing and evaluating a migration process from pdfTeX to LuaTeX for our current TeX workflow. With LuaTeX being a fork of pdfTeX and packages like luainputenc at hand it seemed ...
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Help with the lua-visual-debug package
The documentation for lua-visual-debug is a little sparse. Can someone interpret the boxes/lines/colors that lua-visual-debug produces?
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Bad interaction between fontspec and some lua code that performs string-related search and replace operations
I'm in the process of readying a LuaLaTeX package for "official" release to the CTAN, but I need to squash a few remaining bugs first. The bug described in this question concerns incorrect behavior of ...
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How to read a file with luatex
I tried to read a file with lua and set the content as normal text in my document, but I didn't worked it out. Here my code:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{luatextra}
\usepackage{filecontents}
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Bad position equation number Lualatex
If a math display is too wide, then the \eqno appears on the next line on the left instead of on the right as it should. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? This is an example:
...
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Matrix multiplication (and other operations) macro using lua module
I am hoping to be able to create a macro to multiply matrices using a lua module. The module is here:
https://raw.github.com/davidm/lua-matrix/master/lua/matrix.lua
As suggested to me in a previous ...
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How to report a bug in LuaTeX? [closed]
I think I found a bug in LuaLaTeX. I use the current version from TeX Live 2012.
lualatex --version
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.2-2012052410 (TeX Live 2012)
When I compile the following ...
