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@@ -4,15 +4,22 @@ all - use luatexbase as the Lua module name - change the filename of the lua module (suppress luatexbase.) + - load luatexbase-compat + luatexbase-compat + - new luatexbase-attr - don't create tex.attributenumber + - load luatexbase-compat luatexbase-cctb - don't create tex.catcodetablenumber - rename \luatexsetcatcoderange to \setcatcoderange + - load lua-compat luamcallbacks - test file now for plain and latex luatexbase-loader - - require"foo.bar" now looks for foo/bar then foo.bar + - require"foo.bar" now looks for foo/bar then foo.bar, see doc for + details + - works with luatex 0.25.4 2010/03/28 luatexbase-* diff --git a/luatexbase-loader.dtx b/luatexbase-loader.dtx index 68e6755..432a66d 100644 --- a/luatexbase-loader.dtx +++ b/luatexbase-loader.dtx @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ See source file '\inFileName' for details. % \tex's |\input|, takes care of locating the file and load it, but also makes % a few supplementary checks, for example to avoid loading the same module % twice. This package adapts the way the files are searched in order to -% accomodate the TDS as well as usual Lua naming conventions. +% accommodate the TDS as well as usual Lua naming conventions. % % For higher-level functions related to Lua modules, see % \href{file:luatexbase-modutils.pdf}{\pk{luatexbase-modutils}}, which also @@ -139,18 +139,30 @@ See source file '\inFileName' for details. % \section{Documentation} % % Starting with \luatex 0.45.0, |require()| uses Kpathsea for file searching -% when the library is initalised (which is always the case in \tex mode, unless -% explicitly disabled by the user). However, it does not respect the Lua -% convention that |require("foo.bar")| should look for |foo/bar.lua|. -% -% This package implements such behaviour. More precisely, it looks for file +% when the library is initialised (which is always the case in \tex mode, +% unless explicitly disabled by the user). However, it does not respect the +% Lua convention that |require("foo.bar")| should look for |foo/bar.lua|. +% \footnote{Support for that has been added in rev 3558 of \luatex, currently +% unreleased but probably part of \luatex 0.54.} This package implements such +% behaviour. +% +% More precisely, it implements a new kpse searcher that looks for file % |foo/bar| using Kpathsea with the format |lua| (that is, search along % |LUAINPUTS| and try the following extensions: |.luc|, |.luctex|, |.texluc|, % |.lua|, |.luatex|, |.texlua|). If this search fails, it falls back to % |foo.bar|. % -% It also implements this behaviour with older versions of \luatex (or it soon -% will). +% Also, older versions of \luatex, such as 0.25.4 (\texlive 2008), don't know +% about the |lua| format for kpse searching. So, an emulator for this function +% is provided. The emulator is not perfect, in particular it may find more +% results than the normal |lua| format search. In order to ensure more +% homogeneous results across versions, this emulator is used as a fall-back +% when the real |lua| format search doesn't find any result. +% +% Finally, a combined version of this new kpse searcher and the original +% function at |package.loaders[2]| (using first the new loader, then the old +% one if the new doesn't return any result) is installed as +% |package.loaders[2]|. % % \section{Implementation} % |