September 2017 - dev-luatex - NTG Mailing Lists

source code of LuaTeX
by Patrick Gundlach 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hi all, where can I get the source code of LuaTeX? The link on the web page (http://www.luatex.org/download.html) is protected with a username/password. The page https://foundry.supelec.fr/scm/?group_id=10 does not exist anymore? Any other source? Patrick

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Problems caused in Lua programs by setting LC_{CTYPE, COLLATE, NUMERIC} to C
by Reuben Thomas 20 Sep '17

20 Sep '17

Today I noticed that my Compose key did not seem to be working in my PDF viewer (Evince on GNOME). On investigation, this turned out to be a problem with the texdoc command, and specifically, that texlua changes the environment variables LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE and LC_NUMERIC. In this particular case, I think running a more recent version of LuaTeX would suffice (I have 0.80), as texdoc tries to reset LC_CTYPE before running external commands (and it turns out that this is the setting that causes my problem), but a comment in the current (version 2.017) version of texdoc says: In older versions of luatex, status.lc_* will be nil. For now, I've simply patched texdoc to set LC_CTYPE to the empty string. However, this sort of problem could still occur with functionality of programs started by texdoc that relies on LC_COLLATE or LC_NUMERIC, and further, it can affect any program run with texlua that starts other external programs or uses locale-dependent functionality. Therefore, I wonder whether it would be possible to have an easy way to undo or prevent this environment change? The most obvious way would be not to change the environment when the executable is run as "texlua". Relatedly, I have a bug fix for texdoc; is this the right place to send it? -- https://rrt.sc3d.org

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Change of "--recorder" behaviour
by Hoffmann, Jobst 06 Sep '17

06 Sep '17

With LuaTeX, Version 0.95.0 (TeX Live 2016) the .fls file contains lines like INPUT llatex.tex INPUT ./llatex.txt where the two files were input by Lua code (io.open, io.lines), not by standard LaTeX code like \input. These lines are missing with LuaTeX,Version 1.0.4 (TeX Live 2017). Is that behaviour intended? Is there a workaround to get these lines back (they are needed for latexmk)? Can I override the function to get back the old behaviour? If it is needed, I can provide a MWE. Thanks in advance Jobst

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