luatextexmaker
I'm extending my use from pdfLaTeX to LuaLaTeX. However, LuaTeX does not seem to come pre-configured in the Texmaker editor.
How does one configure Texmaker to use LuaTeX on a document-to-document basis?
(I am using ubuntu 10.4, but this question should be a priori platform independent.)
Added Update to the existing answer:
For those using Texmaker Version's > 3.5.1
From Texmaker Version 3.5.1 onwards xelatex support has been added . Download Latest version of Texmaker: 4.1.1 dated Jan 3 2014 that has xelatex support in standard commands like shown below.
xelatex has been added to the standard commands (with a new "quick compilation" mode : xelatex + view pdf)
Hence there might be no need of Configuring Texmaker for xelatex with `User Commands.
Note: From Texmaker Version 4.1 onwards LuaLaTeX support also has been added
For those using Texmaker Version's < 3.5
You will have to define a custom command in Texmaker - it's fairly simple.
Open the User → User Commands menu and select Edit User Commands. This will bring up a dialog box like so:
Add a menu item name and set the command to xelatex %
Hit okay and you will now be able to run the newly created command from the User → User Commands menu or by hitting alt-shift-Fn where n is the number of the command. So, for instance, alt-shift-F1 will run the command I have defined here. This may be Windows specific. It will also appear on the build menu in the toolbar, underneath everything else.
Hope this helps.
I think we don't need to do much. The only incompatible thing I know is the UTF-8 encoding.
To answer the sub-questions:
Any package related to input encodings and font encodings:
inputenc. You should always use UTF-8 encoding to input the text. For backward compatibility, use luainputenc instead.fontenc. Don't use it with fontspec explictly.textcomp. Use xunicode instead, which is loaded by fontspec.XITS, TeX Gyre Termes or Linux Libertine O fonts with fontspec instead of times package, and use Unicode fonts for main text together with mathptmx and txfonts (font math fonts only) to get proper text fonts.CJK is not compatible with LuaTeX. Today only a few unofficial LaTeX packages in Korea and Japan are available. This may be not very important for western users.fontspec. To load TrueType/OpenType fonts. This is the only necessary one, I think. Also, luacode and unicode-math are useful.
Best Answer
If you want to permanently switch from pdflatex to lualatex, see Joseph's answer. If, however, you want to be able to use both, you need to add a user-defined command. From the menu, User -> User commands -> Edit user commands opens a dialog box. Choose a name (eg "LuaLaTeX" for the command) and use
lualatex --interaction=nonstopmode %for the command itself. This command is now available form the menu or as Alt+Shift+F1.Normally, lualatex should be in your command search path (given by the
PATHenvironment variable), but if it isn't, you need to specify the full path to lualatex. Check the path for pdflatex in the preferences: lualatex is most probably in the same directory.