Introduction This is just a short post to share a workaround to a problem I ran into when building Eddie Kohler’s superb LCDF Typetools under Windows using MinGW. After running ./configure to create the make files I hit a problem…
Introduction Over the last couple of evenings I’ve been looking at the C code for TeX generated by the tangle and Web2C conversion process. By default, the Web2C conversion process generates C source code which is almost completely devoid of…
Introduction This post is, once again, an aide-mémoire to record a work-in-progress: porting the tools that convert Knuth’s original Pascal-based WEB source to C – to create a native build of Web2C.exe, fixwrites.exe and other tools using Microsoft’s Visual Studio…
Introduction Before continuing, I should say that this post is a sort of aide-mémoire for myself but I hope it is useful to others as well. Anyone who has looked into building TeX from the WEB source code soon finds…
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 It’s been a long time since I posted anything on this blog, mainly because my job has been keeping me very busy. As time permits I’ve been reading parts of the LuaTeX source code in an attempt to better…