From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: parsing custom syntax in lua
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:05:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <584738E3-D5E1-40CA-8280-071926368352@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikSo11B0WfbaU9aoq7VtvfhLEy=ZQiuPaQPDjeq@mail.gmail.com>
Am 31.08.2010 um 11:01 schrieb Vianney le Clément:
> Hello,
>
> What is the best way to pass verbatim text to lua for processing? I
> would like to write a lua parser for non-TeX text with a custom syntax
> (could be something like Markdown for instance). The interface would
> be
>
> \startMyFormat
> % custom syntax %
> \stopMyFormat
>
> \processMyFormatfile[external file.custom] % alternative
>
> The text between \startMyFormat and \stopMyFormat or the text read
> from the external file should be passed as one utf8-encoded string to
> a lua function. Any ideas on how to write these macros?
>
> On a side note, does anyone know of a quick way to strip diacritical
> marks from utf8-encoded strings in lua (i.e., transform them to pure
> ascii)?
Take a look at this module: http://github.com/adityam/filter
You can find examples here: http://randomdeterminism.wordpress.com/
Wolfgang
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