Re: [NTG-context] [luatex-plain] disappearing math-on node

5 Apr 2014

      On 4/5/2014 3:12 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
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On 4/3/2014 6:29 PM, Dohyun Kim wrote:
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This is a bug report based on the issue discussed at
https://github.com/lualatex/luaotfload/issues/212
\font\tenrm{file:lmroman10-regular.otf:mode=node;script=latn}\tenrm
\setbox0\vbox{%
    x\penalty-10000
    $a$x$a$
}
\unvbox0
\setbox0\lastbox
\unhbox0
\end
The plain tex code shown above fails with a lua error:
luatex-fonts-merged.lua:9616: attempt to index local 'current' (a nil value)
My guess is: as math-on (math-off too) is a "discardable" item after a
linebreak, the first math-on node has gone away. So the
math-on/math-off pair has become broken, by which the behavior of
"node.end_of_math" is confused.
mtxrun --script plain test.tex
runs ok here so i need an example that fails with context or luatex-plain
It fails with the luatex-plain format from the minimals as of
yesterday and Luatex 4972:
error: .../context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-ota.lua:144: attempt to index local 'current' (a nil value)
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     \bye ^^@-\par
                 \vfill \supereject \end
     l.17 \bye
Though the issue arises only in node mode.
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normally the font callback is called on a hlist and there are always
paired math nodes
(what is line 9616 in the current beta?)
Line 9626 with yesterday’s code. Attached are patches for
font-ota.lua and luatex-fonts-otn.lua that guard all invocations
of end_of_math() with checks for the subtype.
I think that the removed math node is a bad thing so that will change in 
a next luatex release (i tested a patch but it will not go in the tl 
release). (Just like the math node at the end of a line it will have 
zero surround in order to make the backend happy.)

In order to avoid the 'current' issue I'll use an overload of 
end_of_math in the generic code.

The real solution is to make the built-in end_of_math more strict 
(trivial patch ready and tested so that can end up in the next luatex).

In the context code i won't intercept it because end_of_math will do 
that at some point.

Hans

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