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From: Jaroslav Hajtmar <hajtmar@gyza.cz>
To: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Inserting non-standard TeX macro parameters to Lua variables
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:25:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6DBD5C.6020102@gyza.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1008191911370.19511@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>

Hello Aditya,
I had no hope of solving the problem, but it works! Unbelievable!
Thanks very much for fixing the problem and the quickness too.

Jaroslav


Dne 20.8.2010 1:12, Aditya Mahajan napsal(a):
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm looking for a way to insert any character (CSV separator) into a 
>> variable. Manually insert a double (or single) quote is not a 
>> problem, but how to use the universal way to not have to change the 
>> macro definitions?
>> Is there another possibility to insert a macro parameter into a Lua 
>> variable than the use double or single quote?
>>
>> Any "universal" alternative is unfortunately impossible:
>> For example: \def\setseparatorC#1{\directlua{Sep=#1 }}  ???
>>
>> Thanx Jaroslav
>>
>> Here is my minimal example:
>>
>>
>> \def\setseparatorA#1{\directlua{Sep="#1"}}
>> \def\setseparatorB#1{\directlua{Sep='#1'}}
>
> Untested. Try
>
> \unprotect
> \def\setseparator#1{\directlua{sep=\!!bs#1\!!es}}
> \protect
>
> Aditya
>


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      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-19 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-19 22:49 Jaroslav Hajtmar
2010-08-19 23:12 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-08-19 23:25   ` Jaroslav Hajtmar [this message]

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