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…
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,…