From: Rudolf Bahr <quasi@quasi.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: passing variables/data between context and lua
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 07:11:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191006051129.GA3192@nan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c95d00f-b9fc-1595-eb62-ebe75e55439f@gmail.com>
> A solution which uses only existing commands in the document.
>
> \startsetups [martin]
> \startlua
> local points = tonumber(\getvariable{martin}{question}) or 0 ;
> points = points * 92 ;
> local answer = 42 ;
> context.setvariable("martin","points",points) ;
> context.setvariable("martin","answer",answer) ;
> \stoplua
> \stopsetups
>
> \setvariable{martin}{set}{\directsetup{martin}}
>
> \starttext
>
> \setvariables [martin] [question=44]
>
> Points: \getvariable{martin}{points}
>
> The answer is \getvariable{martin}{answer}.
>
> \stoptext
Hello Wolfgang,
what exactly does the command
"\setvariable{martin}{set}{\directsetup{martin}}"?
I don't understand it. Has it something to do with "Command/datasetvariable"?
Especially what does "\directsetup"?
Rudolf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-06 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-27 4:59 Martin Althoff
2019-09-27 8:41 ` mf
2019-09-27 12:58 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2019-09-28 6:53 ` defs, variables and dimensions (was: passing variables/data between context and lua) Henning Hraban Ramm
2019-09-28 17:51 ` defs, variables and dimensions Wolfgang Schuster
2019-09-30 2:51 ` defs, variables and dimensions (was: passing variables/data between context and lua) Martin Althoff
2019-09-29 11:51 ` passing variables/data between context and lua Martin Althoff
2019-10-06 5:11 ` Rudolf Bahr [this message]
2019-10-06 20:44 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2019-10-08 7:21 ` Rudolf Bahr
2019-10-08 12:55 ` Aditya Mahajan
2019-10-08 16:22 ` Rudolf Bahr
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