[tex-live] Where do I put lua scripts for a package?

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/4/25 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:
> On 2011-04-24 at 22:23:49 +0200, Christophe Jorssen wrote:
>
>  > 2011/4/24 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:
>
>  > > PS.:  I just ran "cvs update" but I don't see any .lua scripts.  Are
>  > >      you working on the arithmetic code ATM?  That would be great.
>  >
>  > Strange. They should be here
>
> Might be a problem at my site.  I now ran cvs update again several
> times, and each time it claims to update the same files.  I doubt that
> anything is updated at all.  The directory
>
>  > pgf/generic/pgf/libraries/graphdrawing/lua
>
> doesn't exist.  However, everything is fine after a fresh checkout.
> Seems that I'm doing something wrong.  Maybe I'm too much accustomed
> to svn end expect that cvs works the same way.
>
Maybe the administrative directories of your working copy were damaged
somehow...

>  > Unfortunately, I'm not working on the code...
>  > But you're right: lua + pgf sounds great!
>
> It *is* great!  I recently prepared a tiny demo file, just to show how
> easily problems can be solved with LuaTeX:
>
>  http://tug.org/~kotucha/luatab.pdf
>
> With LuaTeX one can do much more, but I deliberately kept this file
> tiny, simple, and the source code comprehensible.  Even with the
> highly sophisticated math macros provided by pgf, I wouldn't even
> consider to program something like that in TeX.
>
> In real life I already use lua + pgfplots quite frequently.  I can't
> provide an example because I don't want to expose my bank account
> here.  However, pgfplots is incredibly slow because all calculations
> are done in TeX, thus I'm interesting in a pgf math library written in
> Lua.
>
>
> As an aside: I just ran
>
>  pdftotext -layout luatab.pdf
>
> Wow! I'm deeply impressed!  Seems that we need PDF viewers only if we
> are interested in microtypography.
>
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
>
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