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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ctx ... Lua
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:03:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5034D8BA.4000001@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1DB4EA15-3D6E-44D5-A696-BB096BEDC8A0@gmail.com>

On 22-8-2012 13:26, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 22.08.2012 um 13:15 schrieb Procházka Lukáš <LPr@pontex.cz>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> sometimes in this mail discussion I'm encountering a Ctx/Lua command which has been unknown for me or I would use other (known) commands to do the job.
>>
>> So - would it be possible to explain
>>
>> - what's the difference/advantage btw \directlua and \ctxlua
>
> No difference, just another name, there are even more synonyms.

The \ctxlua variant is somewhat more future proof. In the past 
\directlua had a mandate extra argument. Also, the \ctxlua macro
can use a dedicated message namespace if needed and future versions 
might have more tracing.

Hans

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-08-22 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-22 11:15 Procházka Lukáš
2012-08-22 11:26 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-08-22 13:03   ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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