From: Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Ramkumar KB via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Reading ConTeXt metadata values into Lua
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 10:33:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0876810d-a68f-4859-0403-acb7f87f0988@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMD5SRMquQ2HSzX7-1udyD=k-93hUjJW1SHSW7bnoXc5LWsgfg@mail.gmail.com>
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Ramkumar KB via ntg-context schrieb am 16.10.2021 um 06:00:
> Hello All,
>
> I was trying to read the value of '\totalnumberofpages' into lua to do
> something with it. As an example, see below.
>
> Now, as I understand it, my example would not work as TeX gets the
> first go at this and therefore the variable 'pages' is the string
> '\totalnumberofpages' and not the actual value itself. And Lua cannot
> process this "calculation".
>
> I tried to go thru the manual - *cld-mkiv.pdf *- in the distro but
> could not catch on how to read a metadata value (not print). I am sure
> that I am missing a small trick somewhere (or is it something more
> involved?).
>
> \startluacode
> function myFancyCalculations(pages)
> -- some fancy stuff but as an example
> local myCal = tonumber(pages) + 1
> return myCal
> \stopluacode
> \starttext
>
> \blah
>
> \ctxlua{context(myFancyCalculations("\\totalnumberofpages"))}
>
> \stoptext
Everything gets easier when you use the Lua functions to access the
counter values but be aware the values can be wrong when you're at a
page break.
\startbuffer[pagenumber]
\startluacode
context.starttabulate()
context.NC()
context("Current page")
context.EQ()
context(structures.counters.get("realpage",1,"number"))
context.NC()
context.NR()
context.NC()
context("Last page")
context.EQ()
context(structures.counters.get("realpage",1,"last"))
context.NC()
context.NR()
context.stoptabulate()
\stopluacode
\stopbuffer
\starttext
\dorecurse
{\randomnumber{5}{10}}
{\getbuffer[pagenumber]
\page}
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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2021-10-16 4:00 Ramkumar KB via ntg-context
2021-10-16 8:33 ` Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context [this message]
2021-10-16 8:59 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
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