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 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…
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…
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…
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…