From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Serializing nodes
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:11:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49887ADE.9050707@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe8d59da0902030836rf0dc4emd1ad9c87dd0e438f@mail.gmail.com>
luigi scarso wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:34 PM, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> luigi scarso wrote:
>>>
>>>> While grepping, I've found
>>>> in base/node-ini.lua
>>>> .....
>>>> --[[ldx--
>>>> <p>Serializing nodes can be handy for tracing. Also, saving and
>>>> loading node lists can come in handy as soon we are going to
>>>> use external applications to process node lists.</p>
>>>> --ldx]]--
>>>> .....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> \starttext
>>>> \setbox100=\vbox{Hi}
>>>> \ctxlua{io.savedata('vbox.hi',nodes.serializebox(100,true, true))}
>>>> Box reuse:\blank
>>>> \box100
>>>> \blank
>>>> \ctxlua{initt=loadfile('vbox.hi');initt();tex.box[100] =
>>>> nodes.FromTableToNodeButItnotExists(t)}
>>>> %%actually an empty box, of course
>>>> \box100
>>>> \stoptext
>>>>
>>>> I was not able to find a "table2node" function ie
>>>> nodes.FromTableToNodeButItnotExists(t)
>>>>
>>> indeed, that has a low priority
>>>
> BTW,
> Am I wrong if I say that this serialization is an alternative form for a pdf
> " box " ?
wrong indeed, it's a table representation of a node list (tex's internal
representation of a box)
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-03 11:01 luigi scarso
2009-02-03 16:26 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-03 16:34 ` luigi scarso
2009-02-03 16:36 ` luigi scarso
2009-02-03 17:11 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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