[luatex] Sample documentation won't compile.

[Paul Isambert]

Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> a écrit:
> Howdy,
> 
> MacTeX has installed some sample documentation for Context/LuaTeX/XeTeX at least since 2010. One document used to compile fine but doesn't do so with the TeX Live 2013 pretest. Mojca Miklavec was able to fix the document by
> 
> -        context("%#2i",r)
> +        context("%2i",r)
> 
> i.e., removing the `#' from the format string.
> 
> I'm wondering if this is because of a change in the Lua interpreter or something else. The corrected file is enclosed.

The Lua 5.1 documentation* states that “format.string()” (on which, I
suppose, the “context()” function is based) “follows the same rules as
the printf family of standard C functions”, whereas according to the
Lua 5.2 documentation,** it “follows the same rules as the ANSI C
function sprintf”. Perhaps that’s the source of the difference?

> PS: Please copy any answers to me since I'm not a member of this list.
> 
> Good Luck,

We’ll need it, what with the depressing rainy spring and all :)

Best,
Paul

*  http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-string.format
** http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#pdf-string.format