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…
Just a quick post to list a few resources for LuaTeX. Mailing lists dev-luatex: the mailing list for LuaTeX developers at This list is frequented by the team who are building LuaTeX and is ideal if you want to…
Like many others I too was “wowed” by the vision offered by Google Wave and the potential for changing how we communicate via the web. Within the business of STM publishing Google Wave caused a huge stir, purely because it…
Just a short post to suggest a site which has some absolutely superb resources for learning Arabic. About a year ago I purchased Basic Arabic Grammar – Part A and have nothing but the greatest praise for the quality of…
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,…
In Part 1 of this tutorial we looked at the relationship between LaTeX’s page layout parameters and the conventional “DTP” layout model used by designers to parameterise page layout (refer to this diagram for a refresher). So, the next step…