If you are interested to explore the inner structures of TeX boxes created in LuaTeX you can do this very conveniently using the following free resources: viznodelist.lua by Patrick Gundlach. This is an excellent Lua script that generates a text…
Just read a newsgroup posting about a set of commercial PDF manipulation tools that have been made free-to-use for non-commercial activities. If you need to process PDFs, especially in a batch/scripted environment, then these could be well worth checking out.…
A small but important bug-fix for DVIPS has been reported on the tex-k mailing list — see this thread. If you use DVIPS and GhostScript to produce PDFs for commercial printing you may well want to read the thread and…
Well, today I finally achieved my ambition to build LuaTeX using Visual Studio. It took me about 25 hours of my evenings to do it but at long last I can now step through the code with a nice visual…
Having successfully built Knuthian TeX from WEB source code (using Visual Studio), and a couple of other TeX engines, I finally feel sufficiently “brave” (or perhaps masochistic…) to attempt “the big one”: LuaTeX. You may well ask “What’s the point…
Follow-up example to the previous post A slightly more intricate example, this time showing the “before and after” effect of vowel adjustments. Again, this was achieved with a HarfBuzz-based pre-processor. TeX file generated using HarfBuzz Again, TeX code shown on…