[tex-live] Where do I put lua scripts for a package?
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Mon Apr 25 02:29:56 CEST 2011
On 2011-04-24 at 22:23:49 +0200, Christophe Jorssen wrote:
> 2011/4/24 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:
> > PS.: I just ran "cvs update" but I don't see any .lua scripts. Are
> > you working on the arithmetic code ATM? That would be great.
>
> Strange. They should be here
Might be a problem at my site. I now ran cvs update again several
times, and each time it claims to update the same files. I doubt that
anything is updated at all. The directory
> pgf/generic/pgf/libraries/graphdrawing/lua
doesn't exist. However, everything is fine after a fresh checkout.
Seems that I'm doing something wrong. Maybe I'm too much accustomed
to svn end expect that cvs works the same way.
> Unfortunately, I'm not working on the code...
> But you're right: lua + pgf sounds great!
It *is* great! I recently prepared a tiny demo file, just to show how
easily problems can be solved with LuaTeX:
http://tug.org/~kotucha/luatab.pdf
With LuaTeX one can do much more, but I deliberately kept this file
tiny, simple, and the source code comprehensible. Even with the
highly sophisticated math macros provided by pgf, I wouldn't even
consider to program something like that in TeX.
In real life I already use lua + pgfplots quite frequently. I can't
provide an example because I don't want to expose my bank account
here. However, pgfplots is incredibly slow because all calculations
are done in TeX, thus I'm interesting in a pgf math library written in
Lua.
As an aside: I just ran
pdftotext -layout luatab.pdf
Wow! I'm deeply impressed! Seems that we need PDF viewers only if we
are interested in microtypography.
Regards,
Reinhard
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