Hi Reinhard,
Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
On 2013-03-30 at 18:15:01 +0100, Arno Trautmann wrote:
> That's actually an “old” dream of mine: I'd like to be able to
> automatically produce a format for any given document (up to
> \begin{document}) which is changed if and only if the preamble is
> changed. LuaTeX seems to be the simplest way to do this via some Lua
> action. However, so far I wasn't even able to produce a format dump on
> LuaTeX. (I'm trying to do this by now using the myformat.ltx and
> mylatexformat.ltx, but they produce errors when used with LuaTeX. I
> still have a lot to learn for producing formats, I guess …)
Hi Arno,
copy lualatex.ini to your current working directory, rename it to
myformat.ini and run
luatex -ini --progname=lualatex myformat.ini
Create a symlink myformat -> luatex in the bin directory.
If this works, add your stuff to myformat.ini and create the format
file again.
That works so far, but it's not flexible at all. What I want is to load
a format, load additional definitions, and then dump everything.
However, I just found out that this is a known bug, discussed here, on
SX and there's also a tracker item:
http://tug.org/pipermail/luatex/2012-January/003375.html
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/46672/custom-luatex-format-file
http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=746
As the guys write there, it works with pdftex (and also XeTeX, for me)
but not with LuaTeX. I also tested with 0.74 just to be sure, but the
error is still present.
cheers
Arno
