From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/77793 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.luatex,gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: new/missing feature in luamplib Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:00:36 +0200 Message-ID: <5020D934.2090402@wxs.nl> References: <30B8277D-B6D7-4920-A050-F51B9DA459E6@web.de> <5020CDFC.50208@wxs.nl> <86A1AFB8-7483-4B6A-9A52-758DECEF6B96@docwolves.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344330059 19846 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2012 09:00:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 09:00:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users , dev-luatex-wvrSQK3plZs@public.gmane.org To: Taco Hoekwater Original-X-From: dev-luatex-bounces-wvrSQK3plZs@public.gmane.org Tue Aug 07 11:00:59 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctl-dev-luatex@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Syfeq-0000tH-L6 for gctl-dev-luatex@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:00:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96FFD10206; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:00:55 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id H5503fQb9ndh; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:00:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A741710200; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:00:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C9510200 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:00:51 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id e65C9cp5TXbZ for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:00:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-utr.mf.surf.net (filter2-utr.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.153]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1F2101F3 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:00:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-utr.mf.surf.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filter2-utr.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q7790n95016691 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:00:49 +0200 Original-Received: (from defang@localhost) by filter2-utr.mf.surf.net (CanIt-Domain-PRO/Streamed) id q7790d9o019491 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:00:39 +0200 Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter2-utr.mf.surf.net (envelope-sender ) (CanIt-Domain-PRO/Pre-stream) with ESMTP id q7790cv6016622; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:00:39 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.1c) with ESMTP (TLS) id 1841-1713362 for multiple; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:00:36 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <86A1AFB8-7483-4B6A-9A52-758DECEF6B96-KIERECuABvX/D1n+0JDH9g@public.gmane.org> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=03; city=Hattem; latitude=52.4724; longitude=6.0696; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.4724,6.0696&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:dev-luatex-wvrSQK3plZs@public.gmane.org (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 04HHJ0Nwv - 238b00b96cb6 - 20120807 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.153 X-BeenThere: dev-luatex-wvrSQK3plZs@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Mailing list for LuaTeX developers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-luatex-bounces-wvrSQK3plZs@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: dev-luatex-bounces-wvrSQK3plZs@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.luatex:2810 gmane.comp.tex.context:77793 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------