[luatex] Line breaks

Dirk Laurie dpl at sun.ac.za
Sat Feb 19 21:54:36 CET 2011


On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:32:14PM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 
> Am 19.02.2011 um 17:11 schrieb Dirk Laurie:
> 
> > I have tried a workaround using a "detokenize" function
> > written in Lua, which is almost effective: there is a mysterious
> > extra 3 in the PDF file.
> 
> 
> The number disappears when i change your detokenize function to this:
> 
> function detokenize(text)
> 	text = text:gsub("\n\n","\\par ")
> 	text = text:gsub("\n"," ")
> 	return text
> end
> 
I am amazed.  How did you find that?!

The step that does the trick is not the object-oriented representsation,
it is the extra step so that one can have just "return text".

"pdftotext xxx.pdf" still produces something curious, though.

Dirk



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