Escrito homepage

Introduction

Escrito is (will be) an interpeter for the PostScript language written in pure lua code. Its default output device generates Portable Document Format (PDF) operators, making it ideally suitable for handling PostScript code within LuaTeX.

Using a little bit of lua glue code, it will become possible to do the following things in LuaTeX that were previously only doable via complex workarounds:

• Include EPS images without the need for an external conversion process.
• Support the pstricks macro package.

Download

Not yet, the project is still in the embryonic stage. The brave of heart can download the source from the repository, though.

Docoumentation

My presentation for BachoTeX 2010 is online.

The repository does contain both a lua and a ConTeXt test file (in tests/) that should give an idea of the planned interface, but no formal documentation has been written yet.

Project source code

The current Escrito code can fetched from the SCM tab of the supelec project. If you want to help out, just use the supelec 'Request to join project' button.

Mailing list

There is a joint developers / users mailing list running at supelec also. Subscription page

Bug tracking

The luatex tracker keeps track of escrito bug and feature request reports.

License

Escrito will be released under the Simplified BSD license:

Copyright 2010 Taco Hoekwater

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are
permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

   1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of
      conditions and the following disclaimer.

   2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list
      of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
      provided with the distribution.

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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL 
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NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Contact

Please use the Escrito mailing list for contacting me (or fetch my email address via my supelec account profile).