On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Patrick Gundlach <patr...@gundla.ch> wrote: > Thanks Luigi for the test file, this works fine on tl2017 and tl2016 (Mac). > > My test file (shorter one below) works on tl2016 but _not_ on tl2017 (Mac and > Linux). Is this on purpose?
Hm, I don't know. Given that ffi is new, my first problem is to check that the "--luaonly" works, as is in this case. A format has its policy, and given that ffi is as powerful as a full shell, it requires --shell-escape. Shell restricted or no shell at all set ffi to nil. -- luigi