Re: [NTG-context] Error: attempt to index a nil value

13 Oct 2021


      
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On 13 Oct 2021, at 18:37, Hans Hagen  wrote:
On 10/13/2021 6:01 PM, Hans Åberg via ntg-context wrote:
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I was suggested a long ago to hack the file
 /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/generic/context/luatex/luatex-math.tex
and use LuaTeX directly, now using Version 1.13.2 (TeX Live 2021), but I get this error:
(./luaotfload.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ltluatex.tex))
(./luatex-math-modified.tex[\directlua]:1: attempt to index a nil value (global
'arguments')
stack traceback:
  [\directlua]:1: in main chunk.
l.132     }
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It is from this segment in the modified luatex-math.tex:
\ifdefined\directlua
   \directlua {
       if arguments["mtx:lucidabright"] then
           tex.print("\string\\lucidabright")
       else
           tex.print("\string\\latinmodern")
       end
   }
\fi
Is there a workaround? —I may ditch this setup in favour of using 'context' directly, so it is not so important if there is no fix.
I have no clue ..
Has not stuff been moved from LuaTeX to ConTeXt? —If so, I thought it might have something with that to do.
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it looks like you load a latex style so I suppose that 'arguments' is no longer defined there (as it worked for you in the past).
It does not contain it; it a copy in the same directory that has never changed.
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Maybe 'arguments' lives in some namespace?
\directlua {for k, v in pairs(_G) do print(k.v) end}
This will show you what is in the global namespace, maybe 'arg'?
If I put this code in right before the \ifdefined\directlua it prints a lot of "nil".