IV. Talking and Tweaking

IV. Talking and Tweaking

[Piotr Kopszak]

Hello,

I finally decided to learn lua and start making use of it in ConTeXt.
I was quite excited to find examples of interfaces in the fourth part
of "A New Kind of TeX" paper. It would be really useful if someone
could give examples how they could actually be  used, at least some of
them e.g.

command.insert, command.hbox, command.vbox, tex.parindent

I think it would also be quite useful to propose a limited set of most
useful interfaces, something like the Top Ten ConTeXt commands. Is it
possible at all?

All Best

Piotr


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Re: IV. Talking and Tweaking

[luigi scarso]

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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Piotr Kopszak <kopszak@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I finally decided to learn lua and start making use of it in ConTeXt.
> I was quite excited to find examples of interfaces in the fourth part
> of "A New Kind of TeX" paper. It would be really useful if someone
> could give examples how they could actually be  used, at least some of
> them e.g.
>
> command.insert, command.hbox, command.vbox, tex.parindent
>

luatexref-t.pdf
http://www.luatex.org/svn/trunk/manual/luatexref-t.pdf

mk.pdf
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mk.pdf

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Re: IV. Talking and Tweaking

[Hans Hagen]

Piotr Kopszak wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I finally decided to learn lua and start making use of it in ConTeXt.
> I was quite excited to find examples of interfaces in the fourth part
> of "A New Kind of TeX" paper. It would be really useful if someone
> could give examples how they could actually be  used, at least some of
> them e.g.
> 
> command.insert, command.hbox, command.vbox, tex.parindent

where are these command.* defined? in context command is a reserved 
namespace

tex.parindent is \parindent at the lua end but setting it that way will 
probably mess up context's own indent handling

at some point there will be a context lua api defined but it's a bit 
early for that now

> I think it would also be quite useful to propose a limited set of most
> useful interfaces, something like the Top Ten ConTeXt commands. Is it
> possible at all?

could be interesting ... a wiki page where users can mention their top-ten


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Re: IV. Talking and Tweaking

[Piotr Kopszak]

>>
>> command.insert, command.hbox, command.vbox, tex.parindent
>
> where are these command.* defined? in context command is a reserved
> namespace
>

I found it on screen IV. of

http://luatex.org/talks/luaconf-paper.pdf

and nowhere else, that's why I asked. (Sorry, tex.parindent is
mentioned in luatexref-t.pdf)

P.
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Re: IV. Talking and Tweaking

[Hans Hagen]

Piotr Kopszak wrote:
>>> command.insert, command.hbox, command.vbox, tex.parindent
>> where are these command.* defined? in context command is a reserved
>> namespace
>>
> 
> I found it on screen IV. of
> 
> http://luatex.org/talks/luaconf-paper.pdf
> 
> and nowhere else, that's why I asked. (Sorry, tex.parindent is
> mentioned in luatexref-t.pdf)

keep in mind that these are old talks and interfaces (and ideas) might 
have changed so luatexref-t.pdf is the reference

(mk.pdf is the development history showing usage)

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