On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Henri Menke <henrime...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kumar,
>
> the function job.variables.save seems to save the key in
> job.variables.collected.macros instead of job.variables.collected. The
> problem is that macros is not created unconditionally, which is why you might
> run into a »attempt to index a nil value« error without some manual error
> checking. Therefore I recommend assigning the temp value to
> job.variables.tobesaved["document:temp:"..name]. Perhaps Hans joins this
> discussion and schools me about why this could be a bad idea, but so far it
> works.
>
> Also, I'd recommend making all your user level macros protected and check for
> the optional argument in \startwhatever (otherwise you'll get errors like
> »Macro doesn't match its definition«). Because I'm really cautious I also
> use \luaescapestring{#1} (Try for example »foo"bar« as a value without).
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Indeed, this worked! I'll try to understand the internals myself to
know what is going on exactly. Thanks for the solution.
Kumar
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