Re: new/missing feature in luamplib

[Hans Hagen <pragma-42P/b7yZOt0@public.gmane.org>]

On 7-8-2012 10:33, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Aug 7, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> On 7-8-2012 09:29, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
>>> Hi Manuel, Everybody,
>>>
>>> I am just getting into LuaLaTeX.
>>>
>>> I needed to do some work with MetaPost.
>>>
>>> While working I came across a kudo. That is once inside the mblibcode
>>> environment one can not call Lua. THIS I consider a missing feature and
>>> a VERY important one.
>>
>> Some (simple) support for lua calls is on the (long term) agenda but not before the current mplib extensions project is done (i.e. the decimal calculation plugins).
>>
>> Calling lua in itself is not so much an issue; after all one can just do a \directlua inside a blob of mp passed to mplib (I do that all the time).
>
> I was under the impression that this was all that the proposed patch does. Luamplib
> did not allow any (tex nor lua) escapes within the block, if I understand correctly.

ok, so it's not a luatex/mplib issue but something for the maintainer of 
that package as deciding what characters need what catcode is a package 
issue (probably obeying \ { } is enough then)

Hans

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