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…
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…
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…