Documentation
Reference manual
There is a reference manual that follows the development. This manual is part of the source distribution. Make sure that your copy matches the binary! You can find details here. The manual is also part of the ConTeXt distribution.
The snapshot manual (in pdf format) is automatically updated from the source in the repository, but nothing in it should be considered stable. The way things are right now, the actual binary is the definitive answer to what luatex does or does not do.
Talks and papers by Taco, Hartmut and Hans (for other related talks (and talks by others) we refer to user group sites):
- Howling to the Moon (Hans, TUG 2005): pdf
- More or Less, Less or More (Hans, Dante/NTG 2006): pdf
- A New Kind of TeX (Hans, Lua Conference 2006): pdf nosteps
- Characters, Tokens and Nodes (Hans, euroTeX 2006): pdf
- Poster (Hans & Taco, LinuxTag 2006): pdf
- Luatex Status Report (Taco, TUG 2007): pdf
- Metapost Status Report (Taco, TUG 2007): pdf
- Attributes (Hans, TUG 2007): pdf nosteps
- Going Beta (Hans, TUG 2007): pdf nosteps
- Fonts (Hans, TUG 2007): pdf nosteps
- MkIV (Hans, TUG 2007): pdf nosteps
- Where does TeX end, Lua start and vise versa, (Hans, TUG 2008): pdf nosteps
- MPlib, ConTeXT, MkIV (Hans, TUG 2008): pdf nosteps
- Don's Punk Anno 2008 (Hans, TUG 2008): pdf nosteps
- LuaTeX (Taco, TUG 2008): pdf
- MPlib (Taco, TUG 2008): pdf
- LuaTeX (Hans, Dante 2009): pdf nosteps
- MPlib (Taco, Dante 2009): pdf
- LuaTeX, closing in on 0.50 (Hans, TUG 2009): pdf nosteps
- LuaTeX, using plain TeX (Hans, TUG 2009): pdf nosteps
- OrientalTeX by a dummy (Hans, EuroTeX 2009): pdf nosteps
- OpenType Math In ConTEXt (Hans, Dante 2010): pdf nosteps
- Just in time, things we can do with LuaTEX only (Hans, TUG 2010): pdf nosteps
- Using Lua in ConTEXt MkIV, a few examples (1) (Hans, TUG 2010): pdf nosteps
- Processing paragraphs, what happens there and what do we want (Hans, TUG 2010): pdf nosteps
- Using Lua in ConTEXt MkIV, a few examples (2) (Hans, TUG 2010): pdf nosteps
- ... and so on ... this list will not be extended ...
There have been regular reports at BachoTeX, EuroTeX, ConTeXt and other user group meetings as well as in TUGboat by Hans. This is a continuing story and summaries can be found in the ConTeXt development histories, the mk.pdf (upto 0.50), hybrid.pdf (upto 0.75), about.pdf (upto 0.90) and still.pdf (upto 1.00) documents while onandon.pdf will discuss the follow up. Most of these are part of the ConTeXt distribution.
More information can be found in publications by (local) TeX user groups, in TeX distributions and all over the web. Normally talks are collected on the websites of user groups. There is also a wiki.