[luatex] Building a PDF with Lua code, without a TeX stub

[Patrick Gundlach]

>> and depends on nothing but the LuaTeX binary: no complicated wrapping,
>> no stub files, no format files, no TEXMF trees etc.
> 
> That last part will be super tricky.

no, not at all. 

I ship four fonts (the texgyre helvetica clone), two binaries and a few Lua files (total 15 megabytes including documentation) and have no external dependencies. The tricky part was providing the right file-related callbacks when I disable kpse.


https://speedata.github.io/publisher/index.html

and some examples:

https://github.com/speedata/examples

Patrick