Forgot to mention in the original post, but this is with version
2.11.08 of LuaMetaTeX.

The help message is in the function enginelib_show_help in the file
source/lua/lmtenginelib.c in the luametatex repository. I have
attached a patch for fixing the typo.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 12:06 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In the output of "luametatex --help", there is a typo in the first paragraph 
> below the "usage" section. It appears that there is a missing line break 
> between "COMMANDS" and "are" in the second sentence of the paragraph.
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diff --git a/source/lua/lmtenginelib.c b/source/lua/lmtenginelib.c
index c9317a4..f99713c 100644
--- a/source/lua/lmtenginelib.c
+++ b/source/lua/lmtenginelib.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static void enginelib_show_help(void)
         "   or: " luametatex_name_lowercase " --lua=FILE [OPTION]... \\FIRST-LINE\n"
         "   or: " luametatex_name_lowercase " --lua=FILE [OPTION]... &FMT ARGS\n"
         "\n"
-        "Run " luametatex_name_camelcase " on TEXNAME, usually creating TEXNAME.pdf. Any remaining COMMANDS"
+        "Run " luametatex_name_camelcase " on TEXNAME, usually creating TEXNAME.pdf. Any remaining COMMANDS\n"
         "are processed as luatex input, after TEXNAME is read.\n"
         "\n"
         "Alternatively, if the first non-option argument begins with a backslash,\n"
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