[NTG-context] Multiple cases of unexpected behaviour in luametatex

[Hans Hagen]

On 7/4/2020 7:22 AM, Marcel Fabian Krüger wrote:

> Anyway, tehre is another thing I am wondering about: In the latest
> luametatex versions, error help strings do not seem to work like they used to.
> Especially after \errhelp{some help}\errmessage{error} or
> tex.error('fdfd', {'some help'}) in the 'handle_error_hook'
> callback, tex.gethelptext returns nil. gethelptext still works for
> errors triggered by TeX itself.

The error code has been rewritten but that already happened long ago, 
and i never came to hooking the errhelp into that (rather trivial but we 
never use that in context anyway), I'll look at it.

> One completely different question:
> When running luametatex (of course with appropriate format/lua init
> script options) but without a TeX file or command, luametatex does not
> expect interactive input but instead tries to read the input file
> 'luametatex.tex'. (Where luametatex does not seem to be hardcoded but
> derived from argv[0]) Is there a way to overwrite this default input
> file name?
No, as that is a side effect of the 'rest of the command line being read 
after an injected \input' and that is not the case in luametatex. There 
are a few command line arguments and --jobname is one of then. That bit 
won't change but one can deal with that in Lua (there is an input line 
callback so i might even drop the left over bits of those terminal 
related features).

Hans

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