From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40096 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: luatexing Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:29:57 +0200 Message-ID: <480064F5.3020805@wxs.nl> References: <4800124F.8938.2AA4359@wwl.musensturm.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207985505 32319 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2008 07:31:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:31:45 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Apr 12 09:32:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JkaDg-0004uN-IA for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:32:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3A9B1FBC6; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:31:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25959-01-3; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:30:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A8B1FB49; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:30:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BBB21FB3C for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:30:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24052-05-3 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:30:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B31F1FB49 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:30:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 12494 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:30:22 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <4800124F.8938.2AA4359@wwl.musensturm.de> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:40096 Archived-At: Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: > Hallo, > > I have a few silly questions about > > tex.print() > > To produce > > $\sqrt{2}=1.4142135623731$ > > it should be enough to write > > tex.print("$\\sqrt{2}=" .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$") this is because \\ can mean anything, for instance it may expand to \par or \crlf or .. there is a \luaescapestring primitive which catches things like quotes tex.print("\detokenize{$\sqrt{2}=}" .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$") may also work ok > or better > > tex.print([[$\sqrt{2}=]] .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$") > > but that's both not working. The following instead does the job: > > tex.print("$\string\\sqrt{2}=" .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$") > > why? > > Another question: > > What is the differenz between 'tex.sprint()' and 'tex.write()'? tokenization under a catcode regime versus writing strings ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________