On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:11:05AM +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
>
> Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > Trying to get some sort of 'implicit' bidi with luatex, I though
> > of using an (extenal) OCP filter as it is much easier than messing with
> > luatex nodes, and it respects TeX grouping.
> >
> > The attached example loads the do_bidi.py script as an \externalocp, it
> > works fine with plain luatex, but not with 'texexec', using 'context' I get:
> >
> > MtxRun | fatal error, message: luatex: execution interrupted
> >
> > Any ideas? Is there a lua equivalent to \externalocp ?
>
> Luatex crashes because it attempts to call a kpathsea function,
> but the kpathsea search library is never initialized by context.
>
> The crash is an oversight in luatex.exe that I will try to fix for
> the next version. Whether hte default context mkiv will ever support
> external OCPs is upto Hans, but I would not be surprised doubt it
> never will.
>
> To run the example, you can add
>
> \ctxlua{kpse.set_program_name('luatex')}
>
> to the top of your file, then it will work.Thanks for the quick help, you saved my day! Regars, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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