Re: Lua 5.4.0 manual

[Albert Krewinkel <albert+lua@...>]

For a cleaned-up version which comes with a table of contents, see
https://zeitkraut.com/docs/lua-5.4-manual.pdf and
https://zeitkraut.com/docs/lua-5.4-manual.epub (ePUB 3).

The code used to produce these is here:
https://gist.github.com/tarleb/c34c396b21208b91164a8722b7aca2c2

Cheers,
Albert

Albert Krewinkel writes:

> Gisle Vanem writes:
>
>> Albert Krewinkel wrote:
>>
>>> With pandoc and LaTeX installed, you can do
>>>
>>>      pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex -o lua5.4.pdf https://lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html
>>
>> I'm getting:
>>   pandoc: unrecognized option `--pdf-engine=xelatex'
>>
>> Maybe you mean:
>>   pandoc --latex-engine=xelatex -o lua5.4.pdf https://lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html
>>
>> But this ends in:
>>   ! Missing number, treated as zero.
>>   <to be read again>
>>                      \protect
>>   l.2557 ...ter}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{\linethickness}
>>
>> What Pandoc do you have?
>
> I'm using the latest version (pandoc 2.10). `--latex-engine` was the
> name of the `--pdf-engine` option in pandoc 1.* (support for other,
> non-LaTeX, pdf engines was added in version 2.0, such as the HTML based
> WeasyPrint and wkhtmltopdf engines).
>
> There are also docker images, which might be simpler in some cases. But
> the command is a mouthful:
>
>     docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/data -u $(id -u) pandoc/latex \
>         --pdf-engine=xelatex -o lua5.4.pdf \
>         https://lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html
>
> BTW, pandoc allows document modifications via Lua:
> <https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html>


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