LuaTeX

LuaTeX
Original authorsTaco Hoekwater, Hartmut Henkel, Hans Hagen
DevelopersTaco Hoekwater, Hartmut Henkel, Hans Hagen, and others
Initial release2007 (2007)
Stable release
1.23.3 / June 24, 2025 (2025-06-24)
Written inLua, C
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeTypesetting system
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitewww.luatex.org
Repository

LuaTeX, sometimes typeset as 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). 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.

In November 2024, one LaTeX developer declared LuaLaTeX the recommended format for LaTeX.

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