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I see that tectonic is based on XeTeX. But there is another TeX engine out there, called Luatex
that supports using macros in Lua.
This is great because TeX is not very nice as a programming language. And Lua is an scripting
language which is popular and has and designed to be embedded in other applications.
See for instance this nice example of how to generate the Pascal triangle using tiks
(and compare it with the pure latex version of it)
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I see that tectonic is based on XeTeX. But there is another TeX engine out there, called Luatex
that supports using macros in Lua.
This is great because TeX is not very nice as a programming language. And Lua is an scripting
language which is popular and has and designed to be embedded in other applications.
See for instance this nice example of how to generate the Pascal triangle using tiks
(and compare it with the pure latex version of it)
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17522/pascals-triangle-in-tikz
I wanted to ask if tectonic plans to support something like this. It would be nice to do it in Luatex
compatible way.
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