From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Sending data from lua to context and back to lua
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 09:30:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <064100bb-9909-3683-d2b6-af6a1ac0734f@uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180207173953.hli2c7ivrfkamcca@nan>
On 02/07/2018 06:39 PM, Rudolf Bahr wrote:
> Sometimes the necessity could arise to send data from lua to context
> and answers back to lua. I tried this by using "read" and
> "immediate\write" commands in context. These commands are described
> in chapter 21 and 22 of Donald E. Knuth's "The TeXbook".
>
> My question is: Do there exist better and more simple solutions?
You can print (typeset) information from inside lua code with the
"context" function. Have you seen the manual cld-mkiv.pdf? It's in the
minimals.
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-08 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-07 17:39 Rudolf Bahr
2018-02-08 5:51 ` Rudolf Bahr
2018-02-08 8:30 ` Thomas A. Schmitz [this message]
2018-02-08 14:34 ` Rudolf Bahr
2018-02-08 15:18 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2018-02-08 15:25 ` Hans Hagen
2018-02-08 15:26 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2018-02-08 16:28 ` Rudolf Bahr
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