\directlua: writing Lua code in a LuaTeX
Excellent overview of the use of \directlua to write Lua code in a LuaTeX document. From wiki.luatex.org:
Category LuaTeX
Enabling LuaTeX’s use of \pdfoutput
In the tutorial series A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows I showed how to get started with a very basic LuaTeX setup for plain TeX. Actually, it is so minimal that we have not even enabled the many new primitives…
A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 6: final)
Well, it feels like it has taken a lot of writing to get to this, the final Part of A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows. At the end of Part 5 we had discussed creating a minimal TDS-compliant directory structure…
A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 5)
A summary of what we are going to do next This is going to be a pretty long post, and I’ve been working on it for days! I’ve been trying to get the right flow of ideas and the level…
Extending LuaTeX on Windows with plugins (DLLs)
About 6 months ago I came across an article and presentation by Luigi Scarso called “LuaTEX lunatic”, with a subtitle And Now for Something Completely Different. And different it was because, for me, it opened my eyes to some of…
A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 4)
Time for a summary and review My objective in writing this set of tutorials is to equip you with the basic information you need to create a truly minimal LuaTeX installation (running under Windows) for the purposes of experimenting with…