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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Any ConTeXt-Lua changes
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:33:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F44182.90703@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1E5A50C784A8AD44B420EF5A1E9B2806C81FF0ED@e14mbx20n.Enterprise.emory.net>

On 1/14/2013 3:48 PM, Rogers, Michael K wrote:
> The error is basically that a variable is 'nil'.  I figure it's my job to track down why -- the code is long and boring and sometimes complicated.  I just thought if there's been some change in how parameters are passed or strings handled.  A typical use would be
>
> \defineschedule[test][sched={M--Th 8.05a--9:20,1:45--2:30}]
>
> The 'sched' is parsed to {day, interval = {start, stop}} pairs and stored in a table.  It seems the interval table is nil now, but it used to work.  Here's the actual error:
>
> ! LuaTeX error [string "\directlua "]:529: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
> stack traceback:
>          [string "\directlua "]:529: in function 'dotablerow'
>          [string "\directlua "]:658: in function 'tablefromschedule'
>          [string "\directlua "]:1: in main chunk.
>
> system          > tex > error on line 58 in file Syllabus112.tex: LuaTeX error  …
>
> I thought something must have changed, since nothing has changed in the syllabus file or the module file, since a couple of months ago.  If nothing occurs to anyone, I'll just have to trace it down.  Thanks in any case, whether you can think of something or not.

we moved from lua 5.1 to lua 5.2 so maybe you do something very 5.1-ish


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-14 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-14 14:08 Rogers, Michael K
2013-01-14 14:21 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-01-14 14:48   ` Rogers, Michael K
2013-01-14 15:10     ` Peter Münster
2013-01-14 17:33     ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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