[luatex] lua scripts

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On 20 April 2011 21:26, Bob Tennent <rdt at cs.queensu.ca> wrote:
>
>> Ask on the MikTeX list.
>
> I did. They sent me here.

Who did?  Odd advice.  We are not developing MikTeX.  I can tell you
all about script wrapping in TeX Live, but not in MikTeX.  This is not
something standardized, like TDS.

>
>> AFAIR, MikTeX automatically creates exe stubs
>  for perl and batch scripts located under <TEXMF>/scripts.  I wouldn't
>  be surprised if the same is done for (TeX)Lua scripts.
>
> That would seem sensible. But it doesn't happen if you just put a lua
> script under <TEXMF>/scripts and hit "Refresh FNDB"; perhaps it happens
> when a MikTeX package is being put together.

I just tried, it doesn't seem to work even for perl / batch scripts.
Maybe I remember it wrong.

Anyway, on MikTeX 2.9 the following batch works (should be a single
line in case it gets broken):

  @for /f "delims=" %%I in ('kpsewhich --format=texmfscripts
%~n0.lua') do texlua %%I %*

(If you save it as foo.bat, it will search and launch foo.lua script.)

Cheers,

Tomek