[Dev-luatex] tex.print and \inputlineno

[Hans Hagen]

Jonathan Sauer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> while testing, I stumbled on a (then) strange phenomenon concerning
> line numbers in tex.print. It seems that \inputlineno is not equal
> to the number of the line of the tex.print statement (or the macro
> expanding to it), but of the virtual file tex.print uses internally.
> 
> Example (PlainTeX):
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> % Output is `1' instead of `3':
> \directlua0{\unexpanded{tex.print('\\message{\\the\\inputlineno}')}}
> 
> % Output is `1' instead of `6':
> \scantokens{\message{\the\inputlineno}}

it's a new input level; using the line number of the parent would be 
confusing in other situations;

Hans

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