A method for synthesizing interactive educational resources in PDF format using LuaLaTeX

The work is devoted to the synthesis of interactive educational resources for organizing independent or remote work in higher educational institutions. The author offers PDF as the format of educational resources. Their generation involves using the desktop publishing system LuaLaTeX, which is freely distributed and can be used both as a program installed on a computer and as a remote web service. To achieve the goal of the work, the author applies the methods of procedural programming of three programming languages. The Lua scripting programming language was used to define tasks for mixing them and forming a response map. The TeX language as a part of the LuaLaTeX desktop publishing system was used to complete tasks and add interactive elements to the document. The multiparadigm Java Script program-ming language provided the possibility of interactivity when working with a PDF document, including obtaining results and demonstrating correct answers. The method of synthesis of educational resources proposed in the paper implements the possibility of mixing tasks and answer options in random order, using any fonts installed in the system for formatting and all the content design features provided by the LuaLaTeX desktop publishing system. The practical significance of the proposed solution is to increase the efficiency of the processes of students' independent work using interactive educational resources synthesized by the method proposed in the work based on the desktop publishing system LuaLaTeX. This system implements the full potential of the possibilities for designing content of any complexity, similar to the LaTeX system.