Posts which cover programming the Lua C API to extend LuaTeX (on Windows)
Introduction In this post I’m going to sketch out adding the free PCRE C library to LuaTeX through a DLL and outline how you can get PCRE to call LuaTeX! The following is just an outline of an experiment, not…
Introduction I’ve been thinking about the next article in this series and what should it address so I’ve decided to skip ahead and give a summary of the documentation, tools and libraries which made it possible for me to experiment…
Introduction The Windows operating system provides a technology called COM, which stands for Component Object Model. In essence, it provides a way for software components and applications to “talk to each other”. That’s a gross oversimplification but it gives the…
Introduction In this new series of posts I’m going to attempt an overview of the topics, concepts, ideas and technologies involved in typesetting Arabic with LuaTeX, via a DLL I’m writing in C. Actually, the C code is very substantially…
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…