(unofficial) LaTeX format for LuaMetaTeX

Warning:

This code is in early stages of development and contains more bugs than features. Do not expect it to be compatible with normal documents. Also later versions will contain many breaking changes.

Prerequisites

You need an up-to-date TeX Live installation and the latest version of LuaMetaTeX. Additionally a current development version of luaotfload is required. (Of course, luaotfload is not necessary if you only want to use luametaplain without Unicode fonts.)

IF you are not using Linux x64 or Windows x64, you additionally need to compile a special library version of LuaTeX's kpathsea Lua binding. The source is available under https://github.com/zauguin/luametalatex-kpse . After compiling, the resulting kpse.so or kpse.dll has to be stored in the main directory of luametalatex (the same directory where luametalatex-init.lua is stored)

How to install (automatically)

Obtain luametatex from ConTeXt, drop the binary into the same location where your luatex binary is installed and then run install.sh.

How to install (manually)

Obtain luametatex from ConTeXt, drop the binary into the same location where your luatex binary is installed and copy (or sym-link) the file luametalatex.lua into the same directory. Additionally create a sym-link luametalatex to luametatex in the same directory. Then install luametalatex into your texmf tree by running l3build install in this repository.

Finally add the lines (on Windows, $(luametalatex.lua) has to be replaced by the full path to luametalatex.lua)

luametalatex luametatex language.dat,language.dat.lua --lua="$(kpsewhich luametalatex.lua)" luametalatex.ini

to your local fmtutil.cnf and configure paths for luametalatex in your texmf.cnf. Then you should be able to run mktexlsr followed by fmtutil-sys --byfmt luametalatex to generate the format.

If this worked you can built (simple) LaTeX documents using the command luametalatex.

You can then repeat the same instructions with luametalatex-dev and luametaplain to also get access to development and plain TeX formats