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luatex(1)                                                            luatex(1)




NAME

       luatex,  dviluatex, luajittex, texlua, texluac - An extended version of
       pdfTeX using Lua as an embedded scripting language


SYNOPSIS

       luatex [--lua=FILE] [OPTION]...  [TEXNAME[.tex]] [COMMANDS]
       luatex [--lua=FILE] [OPTION]...  \FIRST-LINE
       luatex [--lua=FILE] [OPTION]...  &FMT [ARGS]


DESCRIPTION

       Run the luaTeX typesetter on  TEXNAME,  usually  creating  TEXNAME.pdf.
       Any  remaining COMMANDS are processed as luaTeX input, after TEXNAME is
       read.

       Alternatively, if the first non-option argument  begins  with  a  back-
       slash, interpret all non-option arguments as a line of luaTeX input.

       Alternatively,  if  the  first non-option argument begins with a &, the
       next word is taken as the FMT to read, overriding all else. Any remain-
       ing arguments are processed as above.

       If no arguments or options are specified, prompt for input.

       If  called  as texlua it acts as lua interpreter.  If called as texluac
       it acts as lua bytecode compiler.

       LuaTeX is an extended version of pdfTeX with Unicode and OpenType  font
       support,  embedded  Lua  scripting language, the e-TeX and Omega exten-
       sions, as well as integrated MetaPost engine, that can create PDF files
       as  well  as  DVI  files.   For  more  information  about  luatex,  see
       http://www.luatex.org, you can read LuaTeX manual using texdoc  utility
       (texdoc luatex).

       All LuaTeX text input and output is considered to be Unicode text.

       In  DVI  mode, luaTeX can be used as a complete replacement for the TeX
       engine.

       In PDF mode, luaTeX can natively handle the PDF, JPG,  JBIG2,  and  PNG
       graphics  formats.   luaTeX  cannot  include PostScript or Encapsulated
       PostScript (EPS) graphics  files;  first  convert  them  to  PDF  using
       epstopdf (1).



OPTIONS

       When  the LuaTeX executable starts, it looks for the --lua command-line
       option.  If there is no --lua option, the command line  is  interpreted
       in  a  similar  fashion  as in traditional pdfTeX and Aleph. But if the
       option is present, LuaTeX will enter an alternative  mode  of  command-
       line parsing in comparison to the standard web2c programs. The presence
       of --lua makes most of other options unreliable, because the  lua  ini-
       tialization  file can disable kpathsea and/or hook functions into vari-
       ous callbacks.

       --lua=FILE
              The lua initialization file.

       The following two options alter the executable behaviour:

       --luaonly
              Start LuaTeX as a Lua interpreter. In this  mode,  it  will  set
              Lua's arg[0] to the found script name, pushing preceding options
              in negative values and the rest of the command line in the posi-
              tive  values,  just  like  the Lua interpreter. LuaTeX will exit
              immediately after executing the specified Lua script.

       --luaconly
              Start LuaTeX as a Lua byte compiler. In  this  mode,  LuaTeX  is
              exactly  like  luac from the standalone Lua distribution, except
              that it does not have the -l switch, and that  it  accepts  (but
              ignores) the --luaconly switch.

       Then the regular web2c options:

       --debug-format
              Debug format loading.

       --draftmode
              Sets  \pdfdraftmode  so  luaTeX  doesn't write a PDF and doesn't
              read any included images, thus speeding up execution.

       --enable-write18
              Synonym for --shell-escape.

       --disable-write18
              Synonym for --no-shell-escape.

       --shell-escape
              Enable  the  \write18{command}  construct,  and  Lua   functions
              os.execute(),  os.exec(),  os.spawn(), and io.popen().  The com-
              mand can be any shell command.  This construct is normally  dis-
              allowed for security reasons.

       --no-shell-escape
              Disable  the \write18{command} construct and the other Lua func-
              tions, even if it is enabled in the texmf.cnf file.

       --shell-restricted
              Enable restricted version of \write18, os.execute(),  os.exec(),
              os.spawn(),  and  io.popen(),  only commands listed in texmf.cnf
              file are allowed.

       --file-line-error
              Print error messages in the form file:line:error which is  simi-
              lar to the way many compilers format them.

       --no-file-line-error
              Disable printing error messages in the file:line:error style.

       --fmt=FORMAT
              Use  FORMAT as the name of the format to be used, instead of the
              name by which luaTeX was called or a %& line.

       --help Print help message and exit.

       --ini  Start in INI mode, which is used to dump formats.  The INI  mode
              can  be  used  for  typesetting, but no format is preloaded, and
              basic initializations like setting catcodes may be required.

       --interaction=MODE
              Sets the interaction mode.  The MODE can  be  either  batchmode,
              nonstopmode,  scrollmode,  and  errorstopmode.   The  meaning of
              these modes is the same as that of the corresponding  \commands.

       --jobname=NAME
              Use  NAME for the job name, instead of deriving it from the name
              of the input file.

       --kpathsea-debug=BITMASK
              Sets path searching debugging flags according  to  the  BITMASK.
              See the Kpathsea manual for details.

       --mktex=FMT
              Enable mktexFMT generation, where FMT must be either tex or tfm.

       --nosocket
              Disable the luasocket (network) library.


       --output-comment=STRING
              In DVI mode, use STRING for the DVI file comment  instead
              of the date.  This option is ignored inPDF mode.

       --output-directory=DIRECTORY
              Write  output  files  in DIRECTORY instead of the current
              directory.  Look up input files in DIRECTORY first,  then
              along the normal search path.

       --output-format=FORMAT
              Set  the  output format mode, where FORMAT must be either
              pdf or dvi.  This also influences  the  set  of  graphics
              formats understood by luaTeX.

       --progname=NAME
              Pretend to be program NAME (only for kpathsea).

       --recorder
              Enable the filename recorder.  This leaves a trace of the
              files opened for input and output in a file  with  exten-
              sion .fls.

       --safer
              Disable  some Lua commands that can easily be abused by a
              malicious document.

       --synctex=NUMBER
              Enable/disable SyncTeX extension.

       --version
              Print version information and exit.

       --credits
              Print credits and version details.

       The following options are ignored:

       --8bit, --etex, --parse-first-line, --no-parse-first-line
              These are always on.

       --default-translate-file=TCXNAME, --translate-file=TCXNAME
              These are always off.



SEE ALSO

       pdftex(1), etex(1), aleph(1), lua(1).


AUTHORS

       The primary  authors  of  LuaTeX  are  Taco  Hoekwater,  Hartmut
       Henkel,  Hans  Hagen,  and  Luigi  Scarso, with help from Martin
       Schroder, Karel Skoupy, and Han The Thanh.

       TeX was designed by Donald E. Knuth, who  implemented  it  using
       his  Web  system  for Pascal programs.  It was ported to Unix at
       Stanford by Howard Trickey, and at Cornell by Pavel Curtis.  The
       version  now offered with the Unix TeX distribution is that gen-
       erated by the Web to C system  (web2c),  originally  written  by
       Tomas Rokicki and Tim Morgan.

       The LuaTeX home page is http://luatex.org.



Web2C 2019                        27 May 2018                        luatex(1)

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