Introduction In this post I’ll give a very simple example of how you can use LuaTeX’s node machinery to create graphics. The example really is very basic but, hopefully, indicates what could be achieved with more sophisticated code. I hope…
During the course of working with LuaTeX it can very helpful to explore the internals of the PDF files it generates, especially when using \pdfliteral calls or the LuaTeX PDF API functions (pdf.print() etc). To view the structures inside a…
LuaTeX provides a very interesting facility called “callbacks”. A callback is a Lua function that you provide and which LuaTeX will call at certain times during the course of processing your document. LuaTeX defines a number of callback opportunities which…
Update: Google viewer stopped working so I deleted it. Just download the PowerPoint if interested. Here is an extract from a recent PowerPoint presentation. Posting this is an experiment to see if the Google Docs viewer will render PowerPoint .pptx…
Introduction LuaTeX provides access to the deepest internal structures of the TeX engine: nodes, the fundamental building blocks created and assembled by the typesetting engine. I won’t try to explain nodes in detail here but instead refer you to an…
Using boxes and glue in TeX and LaTeX (2009) is a very nice paper by Nelson H. F. Beebe. Download from here. Here is the file rendered with Google’s free PDF renderer. Visit this link to see how to use…