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LuaTeX is a TeX-based computer typesetting system which started as a version of pdfTeX with Instead of hard coding new features in TeX itself, users (or macro package writers) can write their own extensions. LuaTeX offers support for Donald Knuth wrote another 600 or so useful commands from within TeX, in a package called Plain TeX which makes some common typesetting tasks easier. From the user perspective we have pdfTeX as stable and more or less frozen 8 bit engine, XeTeX as unicode input and font aware engine using libraries for font 14 Dec 2011 - 25 May 2018 - 21 Feb 2020 - 5 Feb 2014 - 8 Apr 2020 -22 Aug 2017 -