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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: hajtmar@gyza.cz, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Testing non-existent counter in Lua
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:55:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C205053.1060803@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C1FDC7A.3040604@gyza.cz>

Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> How do I know (due Lua) that the counter has not been defined in ConTeXt 
> (through the command newcount)?
> 
> I am trying testing :
> 
> if tex.count.mycount == nil then...
> 
> or
> 
> if tex.count.mycount == 'error' then...
> 
> then when counter isnt defined due \newcount\mycount, then test ending 
> with error message.
> 
> When counter is defined due
> \newcount\mycount,
> \mycount=1
> 
> then test
> if tex.count.mycount == 1 then...

if token.command_name(token.create('mycount')) == 'assign_int'
    and tex.count.mycount == 1 then
    ...
end

Best wishes,
Taco

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-22  5:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-21 21:41 Jaroslav Hajtmar
2010-06-22  5:55 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2010-06-22  6:35   ` Jaroslav Hajtmar
2010-06-22  8:39     ` Taco Hoekwater

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