Lua API reference

The reference of the Lua modules that come with glu. For an introduction to Lua in glu, start with Automate with Lua.

  • glu.frontend is the typesetting API: documents, text, fonts, pages and tables.
  • glu.htmlbag renders an HTML string from a script.
  • glu.json encodes, decodes, reads and writes JSON.
  • glu.log writes structured log messages.
  • glu.pdf writes PDF directly.
  • xml.cxpath queries XML files with XPath.
  • hobby draws MetaPost-style paths with Hobby curves.
  • Backend modules cover glu, glu.node and glu.font, the low-level access to the typesetting engine.
  • glu.textshape gives direct access to OpenType text shaping.
Lua script modefrontend module