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I shouldn't seem that way to anyone reasonable. I know what TeX is. I should know what luatex is because I've been to their website, read through some links an
by phaemon 13y ago
I shouldn't seem that way to anyone reasonable.
I know what TeX is. I should know what luatex is because I've been to their website, read through some links and even read through the introduction to their manual, and still I don't know.
And just listen to yourself: if I want to know what luatex is I shouldn't find out on their own website, I should have to go to Wikipedia?!
Do you know what it is? You've managed to reply to me twice and in neither of those replies have you simply stated: "luatex is software that does x. You'd want to use to to do y."
- CatMtKing 13y agoComing from a position such as yours, here's how I interpreted it: pdfTex will take TeX input and output PDF (and apparently other file formats as well). LuaTeX should do the same (being a drop-in replacement), the difference being that it can also use Lua scripts to control how the output is formatted (versus everything being written in TeX).
- phaemon 13y ago> pdfTex will take TeX input and output PDF Ok, well, maybe I don't understand TeX at all, because I thought that's exactly what it did. EDIT: Ahh, wait, I have it! When they say "extension" they mean "implementation"! They actually replace TeX as an engine. Is that right? So, luaTex is just an implementation of TeX written in Lua?