On Sun, 13 Mar 2016, Philip Taylor wrote: > > Nowadays all TeX distros have lua. > > The fact that a distribution may have (and include) a particular > scripting language does not mean that a front-end such as TeXworks can > necessarily make use of scripts expressed in that language, surely ?
It does. If a script begins with the characters "#!" and the name of a script interpreter, and has the execute bit set, then it can be executed like any other program, and the front end can run it the same way the front end would run any TeX engine. This is a facility of the operating system, often called the "shebang" mechanism, and it is transparent to applications. There is no need for the front end to know what language the script is written in, nor how to interpret that language. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
