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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label luatex</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>PDFTeX and LuaTeX</h3>
-<p/>As is said elsewhere in these FAQs, development of
-<a href="FAQ-whatpdftex.html">PDFTeX</a> is &#8220;in essence&#8221; complete &#8212;
-no new facilities are being developed. The PDFTeX team has
-announced that they have frozen PDFTeX in its current state
-(version 1.49.10), and that nothing but bug corrections will be
-provided up to the time of the final release, PDFTeX 1.50.0.
-<p/>In parallel with the running-down of PDFTeX development,
-development of a new system, LuaTeX is under way.
-<a href="http://www.lua.org/"><i>Lua</a></i> is a script
-language, designed to offer an interpreter that may be incorporated
-into other applications. LuaTeX consists of a TeX-like engine
-with a <i>lua</i> interpreter built into it; the <i>lua</i>
-interpreter has access to many of the data structures used for
-typesetting, and the user may also interpolate chunks of
-<i>lua</i> code into their (La)TeX macros, or as &#8216;call-backs&#8217;
-for use when the TeX-like engine does certain operations.
-<p/>This arrangement offers the prospect of a &#8220;semi-soft&#8221; typesetting
-engine: it will have its basic behaviour, but the user gets to
-redefine functionality if an idea occurs &#8212; there will be no need to
-persuade the world first, and then find a willing developer to work on
-the sources of of the distribution.
-<p/>The <a href="http://www.luatex.org/">LuaTeX project</a> is (with monetary
-support from various sources) pursuing avenues that many of the other
-current projects have in their sights, notably Unicode character
-representations and support for OpenType fonts. The intention is
-to integrate the extensions pioneered by <a href="FAQ-omegaleph.html">Aleph</a>.
-<p/>The current version (0.60.0, in April 2010) of LuaTeX is supposed
-at least to demonstrate the final functionality. This stability was
-declared with version 0.50.0, released near the end of December 2009.
-Much work remains to be done, and this remains a beta-release.
-TeX Live 2009 incorporates (at the time of writing) LuaTeX
-version 0.44.0, but the latest MiKTeX (version 2.8) still doesn&#8217;t
-offer it.
-<p/>ConTeXt &#8216;Mark 4&#8217; can already make use of LuaTeX; much of its
-code already appears in two forms &#8212; a TeX-based version
-(<code>.mkii</code>) and a &#8216;<code>.mkiv</code>&#8217; version. LaTeX is also
-steadily acquiring macro packages in support of its use.
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=luatex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=luatex</a>
-</body>