LuaTeX comes of age [LWN.net]

LuaTeX comes of age

Posted Sep 2, 2017 16:54 UTC (Sat) by callegar (guest, #16148)
In reply to: LuaTeX comes of age by marm
Parent article: LuaTeX comes of age

If I remember correctly also tex4ht used the "real" tex interpreter. In that case there was an auxiliary program to "disassemble" the dvi stream. Being able to do the same /inside/ luatex with no external programs and working at the TeX list level seems a very nice improvement! Looking forward to try it!

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LuaTeX comes of age

Posted Sep 4, 2017 10:56 UTC (Mon) by michal_h21 (guest, #105104) [Link]

Yes, tex4ht uses real TeX interpreter, it only inserts html codes in some macros such as sections or lists to add some meaning to the output. It also supports conversion of generated DVI to images, which is useful for various diagrams.

I've also created experimental project which uses Lua callbacks instead of the DVI processing, but the downside is that it doesn't support tex4ht features which requires some DVI tricks, such as the image processing or some tricks with math.

It can be found here: https://github.com/michal-h21/lua4ht

LuaTeX comes of age

Posted Sep 8, 2017 21:37 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

In a similar but inverted vein, there was PassiveTeX, because *obviously* TeX macros are the right tool to use for XSL processing.