[texworks] adding luatex and lualatex to the typesetting menu

[Paul A Norman]

Thanks Reinhard,

Just to get a bit of clarity here, am I right to think that LuaLaTeX
will accommodate mixed use of legacy pdflatex packages?

Paul



On 14 July 2011 13:04, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
> On 2011-07-13 at 20:12:28 +0200, Stefan Löffler wrote:
>
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > On 2011-07-10 07:49, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
>  > > I use latest TeXworks stabe (whatever version it is) on ubuntu
>  > > and there is no luatex and lualatex in the typesetting menue. I
>  > > added it myself but was wondering if in future versions of
>  > > texworks by default luatex and lualatex are added to the
>  > > typesetting menue too.
>  >
>  > In principle, this sounds reasonable. However, a few questions
>  > remain:
>  > - Is lua*tex widespread already?
>
> I expect that many new LaTeX packages, which are partly written in
> Lua, will appear on CTAN in the near future.  It doesn't matter then
> whether a user is an expert or a beginner.  Hence, I think that
> support for LuaLaTeX is unavoidable.
>
> Regarding stability, I suppose that the unstable part is the interface
> to TeX's internal data structures.  Things inherited from pdfTeX are
> stable and Lua might be extended but not changed.  The luacode package
> even adds an abstraction layer in order to hide some internals.
>
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
>
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