Re: Anyone using LuaTeX with LyX?

2013-06-02 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2013-06-02, stefano franchi wrote:

>> Has anyone found a way to make commands and environments
>> with Lua, rather than the unobvious LaTeX methods?

unobvious? -never heard this term. But maybe you think about coding pearls
like

 % The second and third lines are TeX' way of writing ``uclclist += …``::
 \providecommand*\update@uclc@with@greek{%
   \expandafter\def\expandafter\@uclclist\expandafter{%
 \@uclclist
 \accdasia\LGR@accdropped
 ...

An example is the "selig" package on CTAN. 
I would like to have an s -> ſ conversion package (which does the conversion
according to German orthography, keeping the Schluß-Es where required).

I assume there is nothing LyX-specific (yet).

Günter

Re: Anyone using LuaTeX with LyX?

2013-06-02 Thread stefano franchi 
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Anyone here using LuaTeX with LyX? What are some of the things you do
> with LuaTeX?


I use LuaTeX almost exclusively. Same reasons as Wolfgang's: opentype +
microtype support.
I guess I could use XeTeX now that its microtype support has improved, but
I got used to LuaTeX and would need to modify some of my class files to
switch back to XeTeX.


> Has anyone found a way to make commands and environments
> with Lua, rather than the unobvious LaTeX methods?


I have no idea what you mean here. I mostly use LuaTeX with the memoir
class, which I modify/configure  as needed for books, articles, etc.
So it's all LaTeX.


What else are you
> guys doing with LuaTeX.
>
>
I do enjoy the headache-free support of opentype+microtype. The trade-off
is that LuaTeX is very slow compared to pdfLaTeX and very memory intensive.
On my (admittedly rather old system), compilation can last minutes for long
documents (>100K words). And I sometimes get into troubles with RAM.

Cheers,

Stefano
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Re: Anyone using LuaTeX with LyX?

2013-05-29 Thread Wolfgang Keller 
> Anyone here using LuaTeX with LyX? 

Me.

The reason is the combined support for opentype typefaces and microtype.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

Re: Anyone using LuaTeX with LyX?

2013-05-28 Thread EK 

  
  
I have only used lua indirectly, when the standard pdflatex failed
to compile a Lyx file, and I discovered by trial-and-error that
using pdf through lua did work. 
I do not know why that was, but I suspect some dependence issue.

EK


On 05/26/2013 12:54 AM, Steve Litt
  wrote:


  Hi all,

Anyone here using LuaTeX with LyX? What are some of the things you do
with LuaTeX? Has anyone found a way to make commands and environments
with Lua, rather than the unobvious LaTeX methods? What else are you
guys doing with LuaTeX.

SteveT



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Anyone using LuaTeX with LyX?

2013-05-25 Thread Steve Litt 
Hi all,

Anyone here using LuaTeX with LyX? What are some of the things you do
with LuaTeX? Has anyone found a way to make commands and environments
with Lua, rather than the unobvious LaTeX methods? What else are you
guys doing with LuaTeX.

SteveT