From: "Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>
To: Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org>
Cc: orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Choosing a LaTeX Compiler (my predilection for LuaTeX)
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2021 17:29:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kgixgdb.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGY83EfEA8UxB81OWK1uuv7zMknZDzCnVmTAmdKb51QhY5JSOA@mail.gmail.com> (Diego Zamboni's message of "Wed, 7 Apr 2021 16:16:27 +0200")
Hi Diego
Diego Zamboni writes:
> Hi Juan Manuel,
>
> Thank you for writing this, which is the clearest explanation I have
> seen of the advantages of LuaLaTeX/XeLaTeX. I have been using LaTeX
> for nearly 30 years, but stopped using it intensively every day when
> pdfLaTeX was still the bleeding edge. When I started again in the last
> couple of years, it has been a bit confusing to understand why and
> what all these different versions are. These days I use LuaLaTeX as
> well, but most of the documents I process are exported from Org-mode.
Certainly, LuaTeX has many possibilities, although perhaps we would have
liked more if there was a "LispTeX" :-D (by the way, the most lispy thing
I've seen on planet TeX is this strange and interesting package [a Lisp
interpreter written in TeX! language]:
https://www.ctan.org/pkg/lisp-on-tex)
This is a very simple example of what can be done in LuaTeX through its
Lua interpreter (from Org): we define a command, with a simple Lua
function, that put all capital letters of the document in TeX Gyre
Pagella font, in red and scaled; and all digits in bold. (Anyway, this
can also be done in Org Mode with a custom filter...):
#+NAME:luacode
#+begin_src lua :exports none
function change_test ( text )
text = string.gsub ( text, "%d", "\\textbf{%0}" )
text = string.gsub ( text, "%u", "{\\myfamily %0}" )
return text
end
#+end_src
#+NAME:latexcode
#+begin_src latex :exports none :noweb yes
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{luacode}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
\newfontfamily\myfamily{TeX Gyre Pagella}[Scale=2,Color=red]
\begin{luacode}
<<luacode>>
\end{luacode}
\newcommand\change{\directlua{luatexbase.add_to_callback
( "process_input_buffer" , change_test , "change_test" )}}
\newcommand\nochange{\directlua{luatexbase.remove_from_callback
( "process_input_buffer" , "change_test" )}}
#+end_src
#+begin_src latex :noweb yes :results raw
,#+LaTeX_HEADER: <<latexcode>>
#+end_src
#+LaTeX:\change
Lorem ImpsuM DoloR Sit aMet
1234567890
#+LaTeX:\nochange
Lorem ImpsuM DoloR Sit aMet
1234567890
x-----
For more esoteric features I recommend trying the chickenize
package (very didactic): https://www.ctan.org/pkg/chickenize
Best regards,
Juan Manuel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-07 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-05 20:48 Choosing a LaTeX Compiler (my predilection for LuaTeX) Juan Manuel Macías
2021-04-05 21:17 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-04-05 21:36 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-04-06 19:03 ` physiculus
2021-04-06 19:13 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-04-07 16:57 ` physiculus
2021-04-07 17:26 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-04-07 17:53 ` physiculus
2021-04-07 19:52 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-04-06 19:46 ` tomas
2021-04-06 20:09 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-04-07 14:16 ` Diego Zamboni
2021-04-07 15:29 ` Juan Manuel Macías [this message]
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2021-04-06 20:44 Ypo
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