The history of luaTEX 2006–2009 / v 0.50 - Pragma ADE

version 1.0.2 - 2007+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT
--script
--execute
--resolve
--ctxlua
--locate
--autotree
--tree=pathtotree
--environment=name
--path=runpath
--ifchanged=filename
--iftouched=old,new
--make
--remove
--stubpath=binpath
--windows
--unix
--verbose
--engine=str
--progname=str
--edit
--launch (--all)
--intern
run an mtx script
run a script or program
resolve prefixed arguments
run internally (using preloaded libs)
locate given filename
use texmf tree cf.\ environment settings
use given texmf tree (def: 'setuptex.tmf')
use given (tmf) environment file
go to given path before execution
only execute when given file has changed
only execute when given file has changed
create stubs for (context related) scripts
remove stubs (context related) scripts
paths where stubs wil be written
create windows (mswin) stubs
create unix (linux) stubs
give a bit more info
target engine
format or backend
launch editor with found file
launch files (assume os support)
run script using built-in libraries
This help information gives an impression of what the script does: running other scripts,
either within a certain tds tree or not, and either conditionally or not. Users of ConTEXt
will probably recognize most of the ags. As with texmfstart, arguments with prexes like
file: will be resolved before being passed to the child process.
The rst option, --script is the most important one and is used like:
mtxrun --script fonts --reload
mtxrun --script fonts --pattern=lm
In MkIV you can access fonts by lename or by font name, and because we provide several
names per font you can use this command to see what is possible. Patterns can be
Lua expressions, as demonstrated here:
The luacation of TEX and ConTEXt 169