last build of tl18 tonight

[Greg' Ar Tourter]

This is actually a bug in microtype that was exposed by the latest change
in luaotfload.
the current workaround is to load `luatexbase` before loading microtype.

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/476740/microtype-error-with-lualatex-attempt-to-call-field-warning-a-nil-value
https://github.com/u-fischer/luaotfload/issues/46

sorry for the noise
Cheers

Greg


On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 11:31, Greg' Ar Tourter <artourter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> since the last update, microtype used with lualatex crashes (works fine
> with pdflatex and xelatex).
>
> a simple:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{microtype}
> \begin{document}
> test
> \end{document}
>
> when compiled with lualatex will crash with the error:
>
> exlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/microtype/microtype.lua:145: attempt to
> call f
> ield 'warning' (a nil value)
> stack traceback:
>         ...exlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/microtype/microtype.lua:145:
> in main chunk
>
>         [C]: in function 'require'
>         [\directlua]:1: in main chunk.
> l.59 \MT at lua{require("microtype")}
>
> This is a problem with the latest version of luaotfload as restoring to
> version 49978 works fine.
> Cheers
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 22:45, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>
>> Barring disaster, I'm planning to make tonight the last build of
>> tl18. If that's problematic for anyone, let me know.
>>
>> We'll build and release the first pretest image asap after
>> that. --thanks, karl.
>>
>
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