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Support luatex for building documentation

Werner Lemberg requested to merge dev/wl/luatex into master
  • doc: Enable luatex for generating PDF documentation

    Contrary to XeTeX, luatex supports font expansion. This feature is used for the new microtype extensions in texinfo.tex.

    You can select luatex by setting the environment variables

    PDFTEX=luatex
    PDFLATEX=lualatex

    for compilation.

  • build: Use double quotes if passing environment variables like $TEX

    Users might override these variables with strings that contain spaces, for example

    PDFTEX="luatex --fmt=luatex-plain"
Edited by Werner Lemberg

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