From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/47174 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Serializing nodes Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:11:58 +0100 Message-ID: <49887ADE.9050707@wxs.nl> References: <4988704A.4090408@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233681206 27820 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2009 17:13:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 17:13:26 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Feb 03 18:14:38 2009 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 1LUOr2-0006yI-11 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:14:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F26831FB49; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:13:10 +0100 (CET) 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 08283-01; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:12:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D86321FC09; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:12:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD271FC09 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:12:38 +0100 (CET) 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 31332-05 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:11:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (filter4-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.72]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 336F71FBF1 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:11:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n13HBuLb006127 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:11:57 +0100 Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 8409-1840426 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:11:56 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=83.247.100.17; country=NL; region=16; city=Dronten; latitude=52.5333; longitude=5.7167; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5333,5.7167&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 174511892 - 8cc7ee6ffa8e X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.72 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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:47174 Archived-At: luigi scarso wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:34 PM, luigi scarso wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: >> >>> luigi scarso wrote: >>> >>>> While grepping, I've found >>>> in base/node-ini.lua >>>> ..... >>>> --[[ldx-- >>>>

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.

>>>> --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) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________