Fix string formatting of version number#177
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Thanks for the PR. I think I would prefer a |
According to Lua 5.3 manual %q is for formatting strings and escaping them so that they can be read again by Lua. This particular number is however floating point and %q chooses to format it like with %a, that means hexadecimal. This greatly reduces the the readability. Because ConTeXt's OpenType loader versions are always in the format `x.yyy` we can use %.3f directly. This is the difference in output: ``` luaotfload | init : Context OpenType loader version 0x1.8e76c8b439581p+1 luaotfload | init : Context OpenType loader version 3.113 ``` There may be other places where this issue may be relevant, but this line is printed to every log file.
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Yeah, you are right, on second thought Initally I was going for the more general "human readable" approach of |
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According to Lua 5.3 manual %q is for formatting strings and escaping
them so that they can be read again by Lua. This particular number is
however floating point and %q chooses to format it like with %a, that
means hexadecimal. This greatly reduces the the readability. Better
option seems to be using %s, which uses
tostringfunction.This is the difference in output:
There may be other places where this issue may be relevant, but this
line is printed to every log file.
Most of the tests failed on me, but it doesn't seem to be a problem
with this patch.
If you choose to accept this PR consider rebase merging.