From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com>,
Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ! LuaTeX error [string "\directlua "]:1: invalid escape sequence
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:07:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5170ED2E.3090404@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1366349951.3045.251.camel@rommel>
On 4/19/2013 7:39 AM, Kip Warner wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> I am having problems typesetting the following minimal to try and
> extract the current revision number from my revision control system:
>
> % Bzr revision...
> \def\initializeBzr
> {\ctxlua{context("\\global\\edef\\BzrRevision{\%s}",
> os.resultof"bzr revno | tr -d '\\n'")}}
> \initializeBzr
>
> \starttex
> foo
> \stoptex
>
> The error I receive is:
>
> ! LuaTeX error [string "\directlua "]:1: invalid escape sequence
> near '\%'.
> system > tex > error on line 5 in file minimal.tex:
> LuaTeX error ...
>
> Line 5 is the \initializeBzr invocation. This was working with TeX Live
> 2012, but perhaps the correct usage has changed. I am now using ConTeXt
> 2013.04.11 19:55 with LuaTeX beta-0.76.0-2013041612 (TeX Live 2013)
> (rev 4627).
use [[ ]] for passing strings and \letterpercent , of do:
\ctxlua{context.setxvalue("BzrRevision",os.resultof("bzr revno | tr -d
'\string\n'"))}
Hans
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2013-04-19 5:39 Kip Warner
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