On 04/13/2013 10:03 AM, Élie Roux wrote:
Dear all,
I'm currently updating luatexbase, and I have a few questions:
The first two are related to the behaviour when searching for "module.submodule" as "module/submodule.lua":
- Am I right if I say that package.searchers[2] looks weel for it but kpse.find_file("module.submodule", 'lua') doesn't?
Yes. But package.searchers[2] is quite trivial. In lua code, it would look like this: function search (name) altname = string.gsub(file,'.','/') filename = kpse.find_file(altname, 'lua') if not filename then filename = kpse.find_file(name, 'lua') end if not filename then return string.format("[kpse lua searcher] file not found: %s", name) else return loadfile(filename) end end
- If it's true, is there a way to make it work with kpse.find_file?
Just write a thin wrapper to replace '.' with '/', as above.
The goal of not just letting packages.searchers[2] do his job quietly (which it does well), is just to print the name of the loaded file, between brackets... So the third question is: - is it possible to make the kpse version of packages.searchers[2] return a string containing the file name?
That is not possible. It has to return either an error string, or a loader function (the result of loadfile()). Best wishes, Taco