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Vintage LaTeX is a repository of twenty standalone LuaLaTeX and MetaPost examples covering period-inspired scientific-paper typography, engraved plates, diagrams, charts, tables, and mathematical illustrations. The examples are maintained as independently compilable source files, with build scripts for producing the output; they use LuaLaTeX for document pages and MetaPost, including the external fiziko library, for several figures. The collection demonstrates historical ligatures, old-style figures, warm paper and ink colors, hatching, computed optical rays, generated logarithm tables, star charts, and other mechanisms while retaining diagram labels as searchable text in the resulting vector PDFs. The source, prose, and generated examples are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; fiziko is a separate GPL-3.0 dependency.
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Recreates 19th-century document typesetting with standalone LuaTeX and MetaPost examples. It includes historical typography and diagrams whose text remains searchable rather than being flattened into images.
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