{"id":357,"date":"2011-01-13T11:05:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T11:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/?p=357"},"modified":"2014-07-23T12:46:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T12:46:40","slug":"a-minimal-luatex-setup-on-windows-part-2a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 2a)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I omitted an important point in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/?p=333\">previous post<\/a> which I should include before discussing installation of LuaTeX. I would like to briefly mention something called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tug.org\/tds\/tds.html\">TeX Directory Structure (TDS)<\/a>. Quoting from the TDS web page: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TeX is a powerful, flexible typesetting system used by many people around the world. It is extremely portable and runs on virtually all operating systems. One unfortunate side effect of TeX&#8217;s flexibility, however, is that there has been no single \u201cright\u201d way to install it. This has resulted in many sites having different installed arrangements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In short, the TDS is a standard for organising a collection of TeX (i.e., and LuaTeX) files. Of course, with LuaTeX there is nothing stopping you from adopting a different directory structure but if your experiments with LuaTeX evolve into an installation which will need managing, it is certainly worth knowing about the TDS and following its recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>For the purposes of these experiments and tutorials I may deviate from the TDS recommendations, but at least you know that the TDS exists, should you wish to adopt it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Update: an interesting paper<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Michael J Downes: <a href=\"http:\/\/tug.org\/TUGboat\/Articles\/tb22-3\/tb72downes.pdf\">Managing Multiple TDS Trees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: PDF version of TDS documents<\/strong><br \/>\nDownloadable from <a href=\"http:\/\/tug.org\/tds\/\">http:\/\/tug.org\/tds\/<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 powerful, flexible typesetting system used by many people around the world. It is extremely portable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-luatex-installing-on-windows","category-minimal-tex-system"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}