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| Original author(s) | Taco Hoekwater, Hartmut Henkel, Hans Hagen |
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| Developer(s) | Taco Hoekwater, Hartmut Henkel, Hans Hagen, etc. (7 active developers) |
| Initial release | 2007 |
| Stable release | 1.17.0[1]
/ April 29, 2023 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Lua, C |
| Operating system | Multiplatform |
| Type | Typesetting |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | www |
LuaTeX is a TeX-based computer typesetting system which started as a version of pdfTeX with a Lua scripting engine embedded. After some experiments it was adopted by the TeX Live distribution as a successor to pdfTeX (itself an extension of ε-TeX, which generates PDFs).[2][3][4] Later in the project some functionality of Aleph was included (esp. multi-directional typesetting). The project was originally sponsored by the Oriental TeX project, founded by Idris Samawi Hamid, Hans Hagen, and Taco Hoekwater.
- ^ "LuaTeX NEWS file". Retrieved 2023-06-10.
- ^ TeX Frequently Asked Questions Archived 2014-10-27 at the Wayback Machine - What is PDFTeX?
- ^ TeX Frequently Asked Questions Archived 2014-10-27 at the Wayback Machine - PDFTeX and LuaTeX
- ^ PDFTeX's NEWS file Archived 2009-07-09 at the Portuguese Web Archive - news for 3.141592-1.40.0 version.