Thanks martin, that makes sense.

I thought I had a recent snapshot, but not recent enough.

I installed Therion 67248d35 and set it up for Luatex.  It compiled a small 
test project, but fails to render the png background sketches and reports this 
warning.

 

C:\Program Files\Therion\therion.exe: warning -- unable to read 
D:/CaveSurvey/th_Canaan/150Tomo/./ptopo/1- 
50TomoPlanSketch-300-02of02-transparent.png -- Magick: 
NoDecodeDelegateForThisImageFormat 
`D:/CaveSurvey/th_Canaan/150Tomo/./ptopo/1-50TomoPlanSketch-300-02of02-transparent.png'
 @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/739

 

Reverting my therion.ini and application back to Therion d6d9a18f all is well 
again.

 

So for now I will pause my luatex adventure until the recent round of Therion 
edits settles down.  Since the string “decode” turns up in my error and 
features in recent commits, I expect they are the culprit.

 

Should I create an issue on github, or will this message be sufficient to 
prompt another look at decode?

 

Bruce

 

 

From: Therion <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Martin Budaj
Sent: Wednesday, 2 September 2026 17:27
To: List for Therion users <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Therion] th_formdef.tex runaway text error - LuaTeX

 

Oh, I meant a recent snapshot of Therion, sorry for the confusion. LuaTeX is 
now included in the windows installer.

 

M.

 

On Tue, Sep 1, 2026, 22:12 <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

Thanks Martin

I’ll need some more hand holding.

I can find https://github.com/lualatex which gives many variations that I 
cannot make sense of, and https://gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/texlive/luatex which 
looks like it has a definitive install, but it is not github.

Is it one of these?

 Bruce

 

From: Therion <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 
On Behalf Of Martin Budaj
Sent: Wednesday, 2 September 2026 06:51
To: List for Therion users <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: Re: [Therion] th_formdef.tex runaway text error - LuaTeX

 

Hi Bruce,

 

you need

- a recent development snapshot from github

- to specify the full path to luatex.exe, like pdftex-path "C:/Program 
files/Therion/bin/windows/luatex.exe"

 

M.

 

On Sun, Aug 30, 2026 at 11:11 AM <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 
wrote:

>From my query two weeks ago, and Martin’s suggestion I try LuaTeX…

I’ve edited C:\Program Files\Therion\therion.ini to include… pdftex-path  
"luatex"

 

I’m missing something:

Running my thconfig with Mapiah, I get a log file that ends with…

 

making map ... done

'luatex' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program 
or batch file.

C:\Program Files\Therion\therion.exe: error --Press ENTER to exit! pdftex exit 
code – 1

 

Running my thconfig with XTherion, there is no mention of Luatex.  I get a log 
file that ends with…

 

##################### end of pdftex log file #####################

C:\Program Files\Therion\therion.exe: error -- pdftex exit code -- 1

writing xtherion file ... done

 

I checked my %APPDATA%\ folders, and the only Therion related ini in there is 
Loch.ini

Any ideas?

Bruce

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