Now that’s something new: Debugging a low-level babel error in typesetting #Tibetan in #LuaTeX. I thought we had modernized our multilingual typesetting pipeline to get rid of quite a few annoyances, but apparently one is never really done. #TeXLaTeX

From #CTAN:

Chetan Shirore and Ajit Kumar submitted the luanumint package.

Version: 1.0 2023-07-24
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Numerical integration using Lua inside LaTeX documents

https://ctan.org/pkg/luanumint

#TeXLaTeX #luatex

From #CTAN:

Michal Hoftich submitted an update to the luavlna package.

Version number: 0.1l 2023-06-21
License type: lppl1.3

Summary description: Prevent line breaks after single letter words, units, or academic titles

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/luavlna

#TeXLaTeX #luatex

From #CTAN:

Herbert Voß submitted an update to the luafindfont package.

Version number: 0.12
License type: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Search fonts in the LuaTeX font database

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/luafindfont

#TeXLaTeX #fonts #luatex

#LuaTeX 1.17.0 2023-04-29

Breaking backward compatibility change: by default the socket library is not enabled.
The new option --socket enable the socket library as before, as also --shell-escape (without --shell-restricted); --nosocket, --no-socket, --safer disabled the library, and they have the priority in case of conflicting options.
The mime library is always available; socket.sleep and socket.gettime are duplicated as os.socketsleep and os.socketgettime, both always available.

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IMPORTANT ⚡️⚡️⚡️

The users of luatex should upgrade to a new version due to a security vulnerability. See the details in https://tug.org/~mseven/luatex.html

The current update of TL2023 has the issue fixed

#TeXLaTeX #LuaTeX #Vulnerability

@dginev That's because people do not know that they can use #MarkDown input with #TeX.

#LaTeX #LuaTeX

#WorkInProgress: #LuaTeX #Maintenance #logbook for #battery-operated electronics that requires regular maintenance operation such as, depending on battery and device type
- regular-basis charging (or in the case of CRxxxx batteries, replacement)
- batteries' compartiment cleaning and lubrication (e.g. flashlight threading…)

The logbook current version has 2 pages/device, the 2nd page contains only a date table and the device name in the footer

Starting to look like something half-decent 😅

#KeenType is a fork of NTS (“New Typesetting System”, an experimental predecessor of #LuaTeX) and now a 100% pure Java library/app that can generate #SVG diagrams from plain
#TeX documents.

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenType

#TeXLaTeX

After fiddling for a while, I eventually found a way to create good-looking tables with color #emoji from Word for a publication. It just involves #pandoc, #luatex, and the emoji #python package.

I realized that #LuaTeX has become pretty fast by now. I like that!

Je continue de dérouler mon plan d'auto-formation à la geekitude (enfin... ce que je considère être de la geekitude).
Après les regex, je commence à explorer l'arrière cuisine de TeX (primitives, command, command code, command modifier, catcode, token, etc.).
Est-ce que la geekitude est livrée avec une boite d'aspirine ?
#tex #luatex

All sorts of #LuaTeX and #LuaMetaTeX binaries are grown in Mojca’s build farm. She also provides for #TeXlive. (And if you look carefully, you’ll find some sorts that aren’t officially supported anymore, but stay while they compile.)

https://build.contextgarden.net/

(Don’t consume raw produce from there but use pre-packaged cans from https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation)

Hello Fediverse!
We’re #newhere, even if we are already 12 years old – and #ConTeXt is the infamous alternative to #LaTeX for more than 20 years!

The developers of ConTeXt are also behind #LuaTeX and now #LuaMetaTeX.

We’re the incisors (AKA bleeding edge) of the dinosaur of open source. 😉