Thank you very much, Hans,

I had already written to Dick Koch before the first replies arrived. He 
wrote that I could simply use Lua(La)TeX.
So it works with Lua(La)TeX. A self-created lua.engine works and your 
ConTeXt solution with --runner=mtxrun in the first line works as well.

Best regards
Thomas


Am 09.10.24 um 21:20 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> On 10/8/2024 12:35 PM, Thomas Meyer wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> at the risk of this being the wrong address: can I edit and run Lua 
>> with TeXShop?
>> Does anyone have experience with this?
>> Or what could be used as an IDE for Lua?
>
> you can try this with
>
> -- runner=mtxrun
>
> as first line in your lua file
>
>
>
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