Re: [Dev-luatex] scantokens in LuaTeX (issue 733)

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Bruno Le Floch wrote:

Hello,

LuaTeX's \scantokens behave differently than eTeX's, as mentionned in [issue 733 in the bug tracker](http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=733). The issue 733 does not explicitly say what goes wrong, so I though I'd provide a shorter example of the problem:

pdftex '\newlinechar10 \scantokens{\show^^JX}Y'

shows "the letter X", while using luatex I get "the letter Y". What happens is that LuaTeX's \scantokens only reads the first line of the pseudo file written by \scantokens.

Regards,

Bruno

PS: I tried directly commenting on issue 733 but couldn't find how,

Hm, perhaps because the item is marked as fixed, so it's not possible to add notes anymore.

-- luigi