Re: How to hack the lua files

["Lance Larsen" <lance.c.larsen@gmail.com>]

Hans,

Your reply below was very helpful. I looked at the context command line
options and saw 'make'. After running this, the code changes took effect.
Thankyou.

I could still use help in identifying where equation numbers are defined in
the code so that I can add a tracker. Do you have a suggestion of which
function (or at least lua file) I should look in for this?

I am also curious how hooks are defined, so that I can identify them in the
code and see if there is one that would meek my purpose - also where the
hook scripts are placed so that context can find them.

Thanks again for the reply which got me over the first hurdle.

-Lance

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:25:36 +0200
From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] How to hack the lua files
Message-ID: <51B18AF0.5010206@wxs.nl>
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On 6/7/2013 1:20 AM, Lance Larsen wrote:
> I have a version of context standalone installed, and I am trying to 
> add some functionality I need to strc-ref.lua. As a simple test to see 
> if modifying the file was working, I enabled the 
> ?structures.referencing.identifying? tracker and verified that I was 
> getting messages from this tracker in the log. I then modified the log 
> statement in strc-ref.lua and processed the document again. The 
> changes I made to the lua file did not seem to be active. I verified 
> that there is only one log statement that matches the output I am 
> seeing. Why would my lua code change not be active? Is the lua code 
> cached somehow? (I am running this from windows if that matters).
>
> The code I modified is under the path:
>
> context\tex\texmf-context\tex\context\base\ strc-ref.lua

if you patch files that way you need to remake the format file

I don't know what you patch, but changing something in a core file is no
guarantee for the future. It's not a problem to add functionality (lots of
hooks for that) but best do that in a local module that gets loaded at
runtime then.

Hans

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