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Package interpreter:
Translate input files on the fly.

The package preprocesses input files to a Lua(La)TeX run, on the fly.

The user defines Lua regular expressions to search for patterns and modify input lines (or entire paragraphs) accordingly, before TeX reads the material. In this way, documents may be prepared in a non-TeX language (e.g., some lightweight markup language) and turned into ‘proper’ TeX for processing.

The source of the documentation is typed in such a lightweight language and is thus easily readable in a text editor (the PDF file is also available, of course); the transformation to TeX syntax via Interpreter's functions is explained in the documentation itself.

Interpreter is implemented using the author’s gates (lua version), and works for plain TeX and LaTeX, but not ConTeXt.

Getting it

If possible, get this package from your distribution using its installation manager. (For installation help, click on your distribution's name.)

Distribution Package name
MiKTeX interpreter
TeX Live interpreter

You can also visit interpreter's CTAN directory to browse the source or download the material for installation by hand.

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Documentation on CTAN
Readme
Package documentation
Documentation off CTAN -none known-
Maintainers
Paul Isambert
Version 1.1
License LaTeX Project Public License
Related packages -none recorded-
Keywords
external programs, interfacing
Characterizations
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Tools > Convert formats

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