[luatex] combining files with pure LuaTeX

Pablo Rodríguez oinos at web.de
Sun Sep 26 20:11:19 CEST 2010


On 09/26/2010 02:42 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> 	Hello Pablo,
>
>    The answer will probably come as a disappointment to you, but this is
> not one of the tasks LuaTeX is designed for.  It's not a general
> PDF-editing program.  It is of course possible to do what you want using
> LuaTeX, but higher-level typesetting systems like LaTeX or ConTeXt are
> much better suited for that, and it's not directly related to LuaTeX,
> pdfTeX is enough (LaTeX users, for example, are usually advised to use
> the pdfpages package, that works well with pdfTeX).

Thanks for your answer, Arthur.

I intend LuaTeX because of the embedded scripting possibilities (and I 
can have all in a single file, not having to install a TeX distribution).

Thanks again,


Pablo


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