Einführung in LuaTeX und LuaLaTeX - Softcover

 
9783865415301: Einführung in LuaTeX und LuaLaTeX

Synopsis

With LuaTEX, the development of the TEX programme, which has not been significantly changed for decades, takes a big step forward. With TEX it was not or insufficiently possible to meet the legitimate requirements for comprehensive support of Unicode input encoding as well as the use of fonts in OpenType format. Both are a prerequisite for setting documents that should contain very different writing systems. The limitations of TEX as a historical 8-bit system are also obvious today: insufficient computing capabilities, small number of maximum possible registers, counters, etc. LuaTEX overcomes these limitations without compromising the well-known quality of the text set achievable with TEX. The Lua scripting language integrated into LuaTEX provides the prerequisite to correlate internal data used by TEX with those outside of it, allowing a variety of previously unpossible applications far beyond the scope of the mere text set. This book gives an introduction to the new possibilities of LuaTEX using many examples.

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