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lualatex — An extended version of TeX using Lua to compile. More information: <https://texdoc.org/serve/tex.man

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Problem

How to use the lualatex command: An extended version of TeX using Lua to compile. More information: <https://texdoc.org/serve/tex.man1.pdf/0>.

Solution

lualatex — An extended version of TeX using Lua to compile. More information: <https://texdoc.org/serve/tex.man1.pdf/0>.

Start texlua to act as a Lua interpreter:

lualatex

Compile a Tex file to PDF:

lualatex {{path/to/file.tex}}

Compile a Tex file without error interruption:

lualatex -interaction nonstopmode {{path/to/file.tex}}

Compile a Tex file with a specific output file name:

lualatex -jobname={{filename}} {{path/to/file.tex}}

Code Snippets

Start `texlua` to act as a Lua interpreter

lualatex

Compile a Tex file to PDF

lualatex {{path/to/file.tex}}

Compile a Tex file without error interruption

lualatex -interaction nonstopmode {{path/to/file.tex}}

Compile a Tex file with a specific output file name

lualatex -jobname={{filename}} {{path/to/file.tex}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/lualatex

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