In Parts 1, 2 and 2a I made reference to such things as “environment variables” and a file called texmf.cnf. I this section of the tutorial I will try to bring these concepts together and get down to some practical…
TeX Live is a comprehensive TeX distribution which includes a huge collection of TeX packages, fonts, tools, utilities and binaries for Unix, GNU/Linux and Windows. You can browse the master TeX Live repository online using TortoiseSVN. Note that TortoiseSVN is…
I omitted an important point in the previous post which I should include before discussing installation of LuaTeX. I would like to briefly mention something called the TeX Directory Structure (TDS). Quoting from the TDS web page: TeX is a…
In the first part of this post we very briefly looked at what happens when you grab the raw luatex.exe binary and run it: in short, not a lot! Of environment variables and search paths In today’s era of graphical…
Just a quick post to list a few resources for LuaTeX. Mailing lists dev-luatex: the mailing list for LuaTeX developers at This list is frequented by the team who are building LuaTeX and is ideal if you want to…
The LuaTeX executable (luatex.exe) can be installed as part of mainstream TeX distributions such as TeX Live or, for Windows users, MiKTeX. However, with just a little bit of work you can create your own minimal LuaTeX setup under Windows,…