[luatex] Packages and fonts not found if I load luatextra

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:39:40AM +0200, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Le 22/06/2010 11:07, Ulrike Fischer a écrit :
> > 1. Is is normal that luatextra changes the progname during
> > compilation?
> > 
> IMO, no. This is due to kpse.set_program_name("luatex") in lualibs.
> As a quick fix, I suggest replacing this line with
> 
> kpse.set_program_name(arg[-1] or arg[0])
> 
> Even better would be to test if kpse is already initialised, but I don't know
> how to do that. Alternatively, lualibs could use a private instance:
> 
> local mykpse = kpse.new(...)
> -- later in load_lualibs_module()
> local path = mykpse:find_file(filename)
> 
> Or it could just document that kpse should be initialised before lualibs is
> loaded (which is only a problem for texlua scripts, but not in tex mode).
> 
> Khaled, wdyt?

I think I'll go with the last one.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
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