[luatex] luaotfload in format file

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2016-01-10 at 02:23:49 +0000, David Carlisle wrote:

 > On 10 January 2016 at 01:11, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
 > 
 >     Until TL-2014 everything worked fine.  I didn't have to load
 >     luatexbase-loader explicitly.  I doubt that your changes to the
 >     format file break it.  Either luaotfload was changed or my
 >     enableprimitives setup needs some adaptions, or both.
 >    
 >     Regards,
 >       Reinhard
 > 
 > Hmmmmm
 > 
 > So I guess the main change is that since October 2015 release the
 > latex format includes ltluatex (basically a refactored luatexbase)
 > however the lua part of that is loaded at \everyjob as you can't
 > save lua state in the format.
 > 
 > So what's affected you is that luaotfload detects it's running
 > under latex so doesn't load ltluatex (or luatexbase) however at the
 > point you are using it only the tex side of ltluatex is loaded.
 > 
 > A quick test suggests that this should work (at least the format
 > makes without error) you'll need to check whether it works for your
 > use case, ping back if it doesn't...
 > 
 > \input latex.ltx
 > 
 > %\nonstopmode
 > 
 > \directlua{require("ltluatex")}
 > \RequirePackage{luaotfload}
 > 
 > \DUMP

Regards,
  Reinhard

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