On 2011-03-24 <11:34:21>, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:14:00 +0100 schrieb Philipp Gesang:
> 
> >> I'm trying to store the virtual lua chess fonts I'm currently
> >> creating so that latex and context can use them. 
> >> 
> >> 1. At first I stored the vf-chess-XX.lua in tex/luatex. This works
> >> for latex but not for context. tex/generic works for both. 
> >> 
> >> 2. My fonts loads a lua-file which should be shared by all fonts
> >> with 
> >> 
> >> chessfss=require('chessfss')
> >> 
> >> latex finds the chessfss.lua without problems in various locations
> >> (e.g. tex/generic) but context not. How can I solve this problem?
> > 
> > Hi Ulrike,
> > 
> > see also:
> >   http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2010/047721.html
> 
> Ah. chessfss = require('chessfss.lua') works in context. And it
> seems to work with latex too (I had somewhere in the back of my mind
> the thought that the ".lua" extension breaks with latex but can't
> reproduce it currently). 
> 
> 
> > (You’re going to have to declare the table “chessfss” globally
> > for this to work.)
> 
> The chessfss.lua has a "return Table" at the end which declares the
> table chessfss. 
> 
> To quote from http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaModuleFunctionCritiqued:
> 
> "The problems above can be avoided by not using the module function
> but instead defining modules in the following simple way: [*1][*2] 

Of course, that’s the Lua way. I can’t guess what you’re up to
but if it’s going to eventually become a module, the “chessfss”
table should not pollute the global namespace. There are
canonical locations (check luat-ini.lua) where the functions and
data should go:

  http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2010/054982.html

So you might be better off dropping “require” altogether and just
conclude your module with a line like:

  thirddata = thirddata or { }
  thirddata.chessfss = chessfss

instead of returning a table, then loading it with “loadluafile”.

Regards, Philipp

> 
> -- hello/world.lua
> local M = {}
> 
> local function test(n) print(n) end
> function M.test1() test(123) end
> function M.test2() M.test1(); M.test1() end
> 
> return M
> 
> and importing modules this way: 
> 
> local MT = require "hello.world"
> MT.test2()"
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ulrike Fischer 
> 
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