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justincormack on Feb 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I do my resume in LaTeX

LuaTeX looks promising, embedding Lua as a scripting language over the underlying algorithms.

chalst on Feb 19, 2011 [–]

Luatex is the successor implementation to Pdftex, and it works very well: Context Mk.4 is written as a mixture of Tex and Lua, and is a much cleaner code base than Latex2e.

Pdftex is currently the standard Tex engine for the two main Tex distributions, Texlive and Miktex.

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