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Don't ask what you can do for LuaTeX, but what LuaTeX can do for you.
- thingie 17y agoWell, I'd rather hear the lecture, these slides looks more like just something to put on the screen to show some examples while talking. I am very interested in some modern TeX variants (mostly I use Xe[La]TeX), but this presentation fails in giving me an impression of what LuaTeX really is and "can do for me" (I realize that wasn't its meaning).
- gnosis 17y agoThe following video is a little old (2007), but it gives a flavor of some of the neat things that can be done with just a single LuaTeX feature, "attributes": http://river-valley.tv/luatex-attributes/ http://river-valley.tv/luatex-attributes/ (executive summary: attributes give you the power to transform portions of the document, from characters to specific words or paragraphs or the whole document in various ways, like assigning them a certain color) And here is something that covers LuaTeX from a more general perspective: http://river-valley.tv/luatex-a-users-perspective/ http://river-valley.tv/luatex-a-users-perspective/ (executive summary: programming TeX directly is hard, doing the same in Lua is easy, and LuaTeX lets you program TeX in Lua)
- patrickg 17y agoHi thingie, thank you for your comment; you are right that the slides were just to aid a lot of talking. The presentation was held at last year's EuroTeX (2009) conference and was quite technical with a lot of discussion and the talk was prepared within a few minutes before the talk. I just wanted to present the way I use LuaTeX and the problems I encountered while hacking. I try to sum up all this (with solutions) on my german blog www.luatex.de. I am sorry that I can't give you a better answer then "you should consider attending a TeX conference".
- aufreak3 17y agoPLT's "scribble" tool is cool too.