luatex, dviluatex, luahbtex, luajittex, texlua, texluac - An extended version of TeX using Lua as an

       The primary authors of LuaTeX are Taco Hoekwater, Hartmut Henkel, Hans Hagen, and Luigi Scarso, with help
       from Martin Schröder, Karel Skoupy, and Han The Thanh.

       TeX was designed by Donald E. Knuth, who implemented it using his Web system for Pascal programs.  It was
       ported  to  Unix  at Stanford by Howard Trickey, and at Cornell by Pavel Curtis.  The version now offered
       with the Unix TeX distribution is that generated by the Web to C system (web2c),  originally  written  by
       Tomas Rokicki and Tim Morgan.

       The LuaTeX home page is http://luatex.org.

Web2C 2025/dev                                  17 November 2019                                       LUATEX(1)

       Run the luaTeX typesetter on TEXNAME, usually creating TEXNAME.pdf.  Any remaining COMMANDS are processed
       as luaTeX input, after TEXNAME is read.

       Alternatively, if the first non-option  argument  begins  with  a  backslash,  interpret  all  non-option
       arguments as a line of luaTeX input.

       Alternatively,  if  the  first  non-option argument begins with a &, the next word is taken as the FMT to
       read, overriding all else.  Any remaining arguments are processed as above.

       If no arguments or options are specified, prompt for input.

       If called as texlua it acts as a Lua interpreter.  If called  as  texluac  it  acts  as  a  Lua  bytecode
       compiler.

       LuaTeX  began  as  an  extended  version  of  pdfTeX with Unicode and OpenType font support, embedded Lua
       scripting language, the e-TeX and Omega extensions, as well as an integrated MetaPost  engine,  that  can
       create PDF files as well as DVI files.  For more information about luatex, see http://www.luatex.org; and
       you can read the LuaTeX manual using the texdoc utility (texdocluatex).

       All  LuaTeX  text  input  and  output  is considered to be Unicode text, although various filters make it
       possible to support any encoding.

       In DVI mode, LuaTeX can be used as a complete replacement for the TeX engine.

       In PDF mode, LuaTeX can natively handle the PDF, JPG, JBIG2, and PNG  graphics  formats.   LuaTeX  cannot
       include  PostScript  or  Encapsulated  PostScript  (EPS)  graphics files; first convert them to PDF using
       epstopdf(1).

       The luajittex variant includes the Lua just-in-time compiler.

       The luahbtex variant can use the HarfBuzz engine for glyph shaping, instead of LuaTeX's built-in shaper.

       luatex,  dviluatex,  luahbtex,  luajittex,  texlua,  texluac - An extended version of TeX using Lua as an
       embedded scripting language

       When the LuaTeX executable starts, it looks for the --lua command-line option.   If  there  is  no  --lua
       option,  the command line is interpreted in a similar fashion as in traditional pdfTeX and Aleph.  But if
       the option is present, LuaTeX will enter an alternative mode of command-line parsing in comparison to the
       standard web2c programs.  The presence of --lua makes most of other options unreliable, because  the  lua
       initialization file can disable kpathsea and/or hook functions into various callbacks.

       --lua=FILE
              The lua initialization file.

       The following two options alter the executable behaviour:

       --luaonly
              Start  LuaTeX  as  a  Lua interpreter.  In this mode, it will set Lua's arg[0] to the found script
              name, pushing preceding options in negative values and  the  rest  of  the  command  line  in  the
              positive  values, just like the Lua interpreter.  LuaTeX will exit immediately after executing the
              specified Lua script.

       --luaconly
              Start LuaTeX as a Lua byte compiler.   In  this  mode,  LuaTeX  is  exactly  like  luac  from  the
              standalone  Lua distribution, except that it does not have the -l switch, and that it accepts (but
              ignores) the --luaconly switch.

       Then the regular web2c options:

       --debug-format
              Debug format loading.

       --draftmode
              Sets \pdfdraftmode so luaTeX doesn't write a PDF  and  doesn't  read  any  included  images,  thus
              speeding up execution.

       --enable-write18
              Synonym for --shell-escape.

       --disable-write18
              Synonym for --no-shell-escape.

       --shell-escape
              Enable the \write18{command} construct, and Lua functions os.execute(), os.exec(), os.spawn(), and
              io.popen().   The  command  can  be  any shell command.  This construct is normally disallowed for
              security reasons.

       --no-shell-escape
              Disable the \write18{command} construct and the other Lua functions, even if it is enabled in  the
              texmf.cnf file.

       --shell-restricted
              Enable  restricted  version of \write18, os.execute(), os.exec(), os.spawn(), and io.popen(), only
              commands listed in texmf.cnf file are allowed.

       --file-line-error
              Print error messages in the form file:line:error which is similar to the way many compilers format
              them.

       --no-file-line-error
              Disable printing error messages in the file:line:error style.

       --fmt=FORMAT
              Use FORMAT as the name of the format to be used, instead of the name by which luaTeX was called or
              a %& line.

       --help Print help message and exit.

       --ini  Start in INI mode, which is used to dump formats.  The INI mode can be used for  typesetting,  but
              no format is preloaded, and basic initializations like setting catcodes may be required.

       --interaction=MODE
              Sets  the  interaction  mode.   The  MODE  can  be  either batchmode, nonstopmode, scrollmode, and
              errorstopmode.  The meaning of these modes is the same as that of the corresponding \commands.

       --jobname=NAME
              Use NAME for the job name, instead of deriving it from the name of the input file.

       --kpathsea-debug=BITMASK
              Sets path searching debugging flags according  to  the  BITMASK.   See  the  Kpathsea  manual  for
              details.

       --mktex=FMT
              Enable mktexFMT generation, where FMT must be either tex or tfm.

       --nosocket
              Disable the luasocket (network) library.

       --output-comment=STRING
              In  DVI  mode,  use  STRING  for the DVI file comment instead of the date.  This option is ignored
              inPDF mode.

       --output-directory=DIRECTORY
              Write output files in DIRECTORY instead  of  the  current  directory.   Look  up  input  files  in
              DIRECTORY first, then along the normal search path.

       --output-format=FORMAT
              Set  the output format mode, where FORMAT must be either pdf or dvi.  This also influences the set
              of graphics formats understood by luaTeX.

       --progname=NAME
              Pretend to be program NAME (only for kpathsea).

       --recorder
              Enable the filename recorder.  This leaves a trace of the files opened for input and output  in  a
              file with extension .fls.

       --safer
              Disable some Lua commands that can easily be abused by a malicious document.

       --synctex=NUMBER
              Enable/disable SyncTeX extension.

       --version
              Print version information and exit.

       --credits
              Print credits and version details.

       The following options are ignored:

       --8bit, --etex, --parse-first-line, --no-parse-first-line
              These are always on.

       --default-translate-file=TCXNAME, --translate-file=TCXNAME
              These are always off.

pdftex(1), etex(1), aleph(1), lua(1).

luatex [--lua=FILE] [OPTION]...  [TEXNAME[.tex]] [COMMANDS]
       luatex [--lua=FILE] [OPTION]...  \FIRST-LINEluatex [--lua=FILE] [OPTION]...  &FMT [ARGS]