Questions tagged [lua]
Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.
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How to create an alphabetical attachment list that supports unicode characters?
I would like to be able to create a list of attachments similar to the list of figures or tables. However, since it makes little sense to sort the attachments by page number, I would like to sort them ...
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Local declaration of (built-in) Lua functions to reduce overhead [migrated]
It is often said that one should redeclare (certain) Lua functions locally, as this reduces the overhead.
But what is the exact rule / principle behind this? How do I know for which functions this ...
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Origin of Lua Error
If a lualatex compilation breaks with/at this terminal output:
(/usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfkeysfiltered.c
ode.tex))[\directlua]:1: attempt to call a nil value (...
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LuaTeX: How can I change the width (bounding box) of a letter?
I tried to adapt this solution by Marcel Krüger
Fixing the position of math accents when using unicode-math in lualatex with a text font for letters and digits
for changing the width (bounding box) of ...
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commands defined in external file and imported by lua are not recognized
Suppose I have a file sourced.tex which defines a new command \MyCommand:
\newcommand{\MyCommand}{Hello World}
If I create a file main.tex and I source this file with \input, I'm able to use the ...
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(Not) finding Lua modules
I get an error that looks like my code doesn't find some Lua module(s) even from a Lua file in the same directory.
git/uliska/diss/latexstuff/ulDissLua.lua:14: module './template-config.lua' not
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Detect draft mode from Lua in LuaLaTex
I'm working with a document for which I need to generate some data from a Lua script each time the PDF is produced. However, the generation of this data might be a slow, so I would like the script ...
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Pass string with escape characters and comma through xkeyval package while compiling the document with LuaLaTeX
The following is the code of the file temptest.sty
\ProvidesPackage{temptest}
\RequirePackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\RequirePackage{xkeyval}
\RequirePackage{luacode}
\begin{luacode*}
function myfunc(m,n)
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Alignment Gets changed in tabular environment on adding argument in lua function on compiling with LuaLaTeX
The following code works and gives expected output with expected alignment.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{luacode}
\begin{luacode}
function myfunc()
str2=[[$1$ & $2$ & $3$ & $4$ &...
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Is it possible to generate LaTeX documents from within a lua interpreter?
I'm curious about the possibilities LuaTeX offers. I understand LuaTeX is a sort of unified API which allows you to hook into the TeX engine and benefit from some abstractions which would make the ...
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Issue with xkeyval package and special characters while compiling with LuaLaTeX
The following is the code of document myfile.tex.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{test}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|ccc|c|c|}
\myPrint[trtext=Yes, fltext=No]{p,q,r}{stu} \\
\end{tabular}
\...
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Define a polynomial symbolically, then differentiate it to find its local maximum [closed]
For the following, how to symbolically construct the polynomial Te(Ne) = a*Ne^2 + b*Ne + c, then find its maximum by equating its derivative to zero.
I would like to find how to do it using either lua ...
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weird verbatim-like manual environment writing with luatex preprocessing
I'm currently trying to make my wrapper around tikzpicture while preserving the tikzexternalize functionality (see this post, this and this one for reference where some of my ideas came from): a real ...
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Pandoc convert specific parts of document
I have a markdown file of which I want to convert sometimes only specific parts, sometimes the whole document. I know about lua-filters and fenced div which I think is a possible approach, but how can ...
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macros avoid linebreak if macro expands to nothing
I know this one is quite similar to this post (from me). But even with using % all over the place and \ignorespaces there is still a linebreak.
See my mwe: (main2.tex)
\documentclass{article}
\...
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I can't figure out tikz + gnuplot
I'm trying to output a gnuplot graph to tikz code. I tried using the set terminal lua tikz terminal in gnuplot. Gnuplot issued the corresponding code in the \begin{tikzpicture}[gnuplot] environment... ...
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citeproc-lua prevent hyphenating the urls in references
I use citeproc-lua with texstudio in Windows 11. I have used apa csl style provided with the package citation-style-language as example here, but I have to use american-medical-association csl style ...
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citeproc-lua giving errors in luatex
I use windows 11. I don't konw how to use tex with command prompt. So, i use texstudio. I wanted to use cep referencing style in my report, which was not available in biblatex, bibtex. So, i installed ...
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Luaotfload: change kerning for many characters at once
How can I iterate over many characters? And how can I iterate over hexadecimal values?
Not working MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\directlua{function W(s) return string.gsub(&...
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How can I filter math with Lua toks?
Related to a previous question (How can I avoid TeX environment's when token filtering in LuaLaTeX?), I have been playing with creating a package using Lua to censor text (though it's at an early ...
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gnuplot lua-tikz font to Arial
In gnuplot lua-tikz, I would like to change all letters that appear in a figure (including labels, tics numbers) to Arial. I tried several patterns as
set term lua tikz tightboundingbox standalone ...
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How can I avoid TeX environment's when token filtering in LuaLaTeX?
This is a follow-up to: How can I exclude TeX macros when counting a string's characters in Lua?
Thanks to @Henri Menke's excellent answer to that question (below), I know how to filter out macros ...
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How can I exclude TeX macros when counting a string's characters in Lua?
A follow-up to my earlier question: Macro to replace text with random string of same length
Thanks to the answer of @Mico, we now have a macro in Lua to replace a UTF-8 String with random characters. ...
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Macro to replace text with random string of same length
I am playing with LuaLaTeX substitutions, trying to find a way to replace a string within a macro with random characters of the same length.
The chickenize package offers the randomchars function ...
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Minimal Testing Environment For LuaMetaTeX
The new LuaMetaTeX typesetting engine praises itself as being "lean and mean",
but the ConTeXt package that it comes shipped with is actually pretty obese
(around 270 MiB when installed). To ...
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Strange interaction between fontspec and lua
I noticed a strange interaction between the fontspec package and lua code.
I have been using for some time a lua code found on this site that prevents words composed of a single letter ("a", ...
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textcolor inside bookdown math blocks
I am trying to get text coloring to work inside tex/math blocks.
The code I inherited in latex is
\[
H_0: b = \textcolor{orange}{0}
\]
This works fine for pdf but not for html. I have then read https:...
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Printing Hostname in Lua
Related to How to detect and condition based on hostname . Answer in next post.
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A command call implemented in C, called from TeX via Lua. Why is it hanging?
The following C code (popen3luatex.c) implements a command call at the C level.
This can be called from LuaTeX using the LaTeX file popen3luatex.tex, below popen3luatex.c.
I've written little C code ...
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pgfplots contour lua with data in external file
i am working on a lot of measured data stored in a file, which i want to visualize with a contour plot. There I have coordinates x and y and a value z as function of x and y, which should be used to ...
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LuaLaTeX code should generate an error, yet doesn't
I'm trying to learn a bit more about LuaLaTeX and came across this introduction. The author claims that the following code does not work:
% this code will not work
\directlua{
tex.print("\\...
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LuaLaTeX full font embedding + eforms package
i tried fully embedding a font using directives from How can I verify that the fonts are all embedded in my LuaLatex document? [1], using font BlackChancery from https://www.1001fonts.com/...
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LuaTeX compiling
May someone can explain me how to compile the LuaTeX source files available here :
http://michel.quercia.free.fr/cours-MP.tgz
together with the macro's files
http://michel.quercia.free.fr/montchapet....
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lualatex luasec/luasocket
I hope this isn't frustrating since there are already other posts regarding a similar question, but somehow nothing I read so far works.
As I'm under Arch Linux, I installed lua and luarocks via ...
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How can I use Lua's string.len() inside a metapost function?
I am designing pseudo-crosswords for my pupils exercices with the following macro:
\startMPinclusions
% could'nt achieve using the word string length as a first parameter
vardef MotMystere (expr ...
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Lua - automatically turn - into -- if between two numbers
I've repeatedly read that Lua can do some cool under-the-hood things to TeX. One thing that comes to mind: I have a rather forgetful coworker who always used a hyphen instead of en-dash between two ...
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Different output in Lua and LuaLaTeX
I'm using TeX Live 2020 (with LuaLaTeX 1.12.0) and Lua 5.3.
When I compile the following .tex file using lualatex --shell-escape the content of the resulting .pdf is a.
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Help on specific Latex command referencing Lua functions to be written with Lua
Today I write the following code snippet in a latex file and what I want to achieve works well :
\draw [dotted] (\ordinateOnTimeAxis{-1500}, 2 * \laneHeight) -- (\ordinateOnTimeAxis{-1500}, 2 * \...
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Unable to read a 'second' json file from inside a 'for' loop (Lua+Latex)
I'm looping through a json file and displaying content in the format below:
Zone 1
Projection(Main.tex)
Grat Table(gratsection.tex)
Zone 2
Projection (Main.tex)
Grat table (gratsection....
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Latex renders "Script file ./input.markdown.lua not found" error into pdf
I am using this command line (batch file):
.\pandoc.exe --pdf-engine-opt=-shell-escape --from=markdown --output=test.pdf mini.md --template .\templates\test.template
with this input file
#Testbook
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Table CHAR alignment in XML
I have successfully loaded XML in LuaLaTeX with XML-Tables based on this example
Count Number of Columns in XML.
I have need the table alignments from tbody instead of thead. And how to define ...
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Split Table to Next Page - LuaLaTeX
I have need to split the table to next page without using longtable package. Because longtable package is not supporting directly float.
MY MWE is:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{luacode}
\begin{...
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LuaLaTeX cannot find C module, but Lua can
My directory looks like this:
main.so
mainlua.lua
maintex.tex
where main.so is a module written in C++.
mainlua.lua contains the following code:
package.cpath = package.cpath .. ";./?.so;"
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Using Lua to format section titles
I'm trying to create a new lecture environment from the base section one.
I'd like its title to be Lecture <number>: <title> if a title is provided, and Lecture <number> if it isn't. ...
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XML Keyboard Characters to TeX Characters - LuaLaTeX
I would like to convert all the XML Keyboard Characters to LaTeX Code Conversion. For Example $ should convert to \$, { should convert to \{ in LaTeX. How to achieve this?
I know it's possible to do ...
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Figure Text in same Document with Anchor Tag
I had referred this link: Create Separate File using LuaLaTeX
But i have need in the same document.
I would like to give anchor tags in the figure caption and move the figure caption text in the top ...
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Create Separate File using LuaLaTeX
My Input LaTeX FileName is Article05.tex. I would like to find the text <stepn number>(.-)</stepn number> and store the text is individual file like name is Article05-step.tex. How to ...
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Problem issuing \egroup ("}") from Lua
I would like to define a command using Lua that will start and end a \savebox depending on if it is starred or not. Let's call this command \switchcolumn.
Here is the code (the first \switchcolumn ...
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How can I substitute an ampersand in LuaLaTeX?
I am trying to use Lua to substitute the default ampersand for a swashy one. Fontforge tells me the glyph's name is 'ampersand', and the swashy version is 'u0026.da'. However, I can't get the swash ...
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How to make sure LuaTeX write all that is supposed to?
I have a file
\documentclass{standalone}
\begin{document}
\( \mathaccent"7017 c \)
\end{document}
that prints what is supposed to, a C-with a circle on top in math-mode, just fine.
Suppose now ...
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