June 2025 - dev-luatex - Mailing Lists

Increase sup_dest_names_size
by Max Chernoff 30 Jun '25

30 Jun '25

Hi Luigi, Can you please increase sup_dest_names_size (patch attached)? A user reported that the current value is insufficient for some of their documents, and as far as I can tell, increasing its value should be safe (but you'll know better than I do). I randomly guessed that I should increase it by a factor of 4, but maybe a different value would be better? I've verified that I can build the LuaTeX binaries and formats with this change, but I don't have any documents large enough to reach the old limit, so I can't actually confirm that the patch works as intended. --- Subject: [PATCH] Increase sup_dest_names_size by a factor of 4 Some users are receiving a sorry [number of destination names (dest_names_size)=131072] error with real-world documents https://12000.org/my_notes/faq/LATEX/html_and_latexchapter3.htm#x4-70003.1 https://tug.org/pipermail/luatex/2025-June/008101.html https://tug.org/pipermail/luatex/2022-March/007663.html and increasing sup_dest_names_size to 524288 should fix it. Named destinations are stored in a PDF /Dests name tree, and the PDF 2.0 specification §7.9.6 states that name trees can be arbitrarily large, and should not be subject to implementation-defined limits. The PDF 1.7 specification §C states that documents should not contain more than 8 million indirect objects, and even the new sup_dest_names_size is well beneath that. dvipdfmx only supports reading name trees 5 levels deep; with the 31 objects per level that ConTeXt defaults to, this is >30 million named objects, well above this new LuaTeX maximum. --- source/texk/web2c/luatexdir/pdf/pdfdest.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Thanks, -- Max

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slnunicode seems to use data from Unicode 3.1
by Vítek Starý Novotný 24 Jun '25

24 Jun '25

Dear list, LuaTeX contains the library slnunicode for withing with Unicode strings. This library seems abandoned [1] and contains hard-coded data [2] that were extracted from the file `UnicodeData.txt`. By comparing [3] this data to files `UnicodeData.txt` from various versions of the Unicode standard, I concluded that they originate from Unicode 3.1 (released in March 2001). I am not sure if the LuaTeX team applies any patches to slnunicode but if not, then that's quite old! The good news is that updating the hard-coded data to the latest Unicode standard seems trivial and can be done using an automated script [4]. The bad news is that there were many changes to the Unicode standard since version 3.1 and broader changes may be necessary to bring the package up-to-date. [1]: https://github.com/LuaDist/slnunicode [2]: https://github.com/LuaDist/slnunicode/blob/master/slnudata.c [3]: https://github.com/Witiko/markdown/pull/557#issuecomment-2983818188 [4]: https://spacegit.unibe.ch/bela/mb-linux-msli/-/blob/38b8bc2d8ee86a6c4d0d833… Best, Vitek

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Getters and setters for pdf_link_state whatsits
by Marcel Fabian Krüger 17 Jun '25

17 Jun '25

Hi LuaTeX team, I recently tried to interact with pdf_link_state whatsits from Lua and the current situation is a bit odd: If `n` is a pdf_link_state node, then `n.value` can be assigned to set the parmeter of the pdf_link_state node, but reading `n.value` results in nil. When using node.direct, neither getfield nor setfield for on the `value` field. Assuming that this is just an oversight I attach a patch to at all `value` to all the usual getters and setters. Best, Marcel

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Re: \mathflattenmode becoming (hopefully not quite) obsolete
by Marcel Fabian Krüger 17 Jun '25

17 Jun '25

On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 12:11:11PM +0200, luigi scarso wrote: > Any news ? Hi, attached is the patch to un-obsolete(?) \mathflattenmode. Best, Marcel

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\mathflattenmode becoming (hopefully not quite) obsolete
by Marcel Fabian Krüger 14 Jun '25

14 Jun '25

Hi, in recent LuaTeX versions \mathflattenmode has been marked as obsolete. We would like to use this functionality in LuaLaTeX, so it would be great if it could stick around. We only need it to disable flattening though, so if you want to avoid keeping the whole thing we would also be happy to just have a boolean "disable mth flattening" option equivalent to \mathflattenmode=0. Best regards, Marcel

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A strange behavior of `\magstep0`
by li lu 08 Jun '25

08 Jun '25

Hi LuaTeX Team, I am writing to report strange behavior of the \magstep0 command , or the original magnification \csname @m\endcsname. The problem is happened in a macro with \afterassignment and then assign \magstep0 to a count register. For the LuaTeX version: luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version 1.22.0 (TeX Live 2026/dev/Arch Linux) Development id: 7674 Execute 'luatex --credits' for credits and version details. There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is covered by the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or (at your option) any later version. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING and the LuaTeX source. LuaTeX is Copyright 2025 Taco Hoekwater and the LuaTeX Team. The problem is happened in a macro with \afterassignment and then assign \magstep0 to a count register. A shortest description: ``` \newcount\count \def\problemhere#1\relax#2{\string#1#2} \def\todo{ \afterassignment\problemhere \count= } ``` For the above macro, \todo\magstep1{HERE} just print HERE while \todo\magstep0{HERE} print \or1200HERE. It seems that \magstep0 break the \ifcase structure in the \magstep definition, It seems that this is not a expected behavior. Complete use case steps and more details are on the stackoverflow page * https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/745864/248249 Sincerely, Yours

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Crash when accessing the field 'data' of a whatsit(write) node
by Josef Friedrich 01 Jun '25

01 Jun '25

I’m the maintainer of the nodetree package. I got a bug report: https://github.com/Josef-Friedrich/nodetree/issues/46 I was able to narrow down the problem: debug.tex: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \directlua{ luatexbase.add_to_callback('vpack_filter', function(head) if node.type(head.id) == 'whatsit' and head.subtype == 1 then local tmp = head.data end return true end, 'debug' ) } \begin{figure} \caption{test} \end{figure} \end{document} lualatex debug.tex: ! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 19. <inserted text> \fi l.19 \end{figure} The line 'local tmp = head.data' causes the error. I tried also 'print(head.data)' or 'local tmp = head['data']'. These access types also caused a crash. Access to fields other than data works without any problems. print(head.stream) print(head.id) print(head.xxx) Is this a bug in LuaTeX? Or how can I access the field 'data' of a whatsit(write) node for debugging purposes?

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