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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:04:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <492E70BE.40005@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00811270029l5f059665tbe66d7b6a73ec33e@mail.gmail.com>

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> I thought that \startluacode should be behaving the same way as
> verbatim environments where commands inside verbatim have no
> influence, but apparently I was wrong.

no, more like MPcode where one can mix things

if the luacode would not expand macros, then we'd need rather tricky 
code when we'd like to have tex put stuff in there


\startluacode
     print('a\string\tb')
\stopluacode

Hans

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-27 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-26 19:07 Mojca Miklavec
2008-11-26 19:28 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-11-27  8:29   ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-11-27  8:42     ` luigi scarso
2008-11-27  9:02       ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-11-27  9:28         ` luigi scarso
2008-11-27 10:17         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-11-27 11:48           ` luigi scarso
2008-11-27 12:03             ` Hans Hagen
2008-11-27 13:00               ` luigi scarso
2008-11-27  8:50     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-11-27 10:04     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2008-11-27  8:13 ` Hans Hagen

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