Re: Problem Passing \starttabulate into Lua

["Ashlock, Tad A" <taashlo@sandia.gov>]

On 2008-12-28 at 15:33, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>Am 27.12.2008 um 12:20 schrieb Tad Ashlock:
>> I'm trying to create a ConTeXt macro (mkiv) that will manipulate the
>> macro argument's text with Lua and then feed it back into ConTeXt
>> with tex.print().  My approach worked correctly until I called the
>> macro with \starttabulate ... \stoptabulate in the macro's
>> argument.  So I started reducing the problem down to a minimum
>> example which surprisingly turned out to have nothing to do with the
>> manipulations I was performing.
[snip]
>
>\def\testmacro
>   {\bgroup
>    \catcode`\\=12
>    \dotestmacro}
>
>\def\dotestmacro#1
>   {\ctxlua{d='\luaescapestring{#1}'}%
>    \egroup}
>
>\starttext
>
>\testmacro{\starttabulate \NC text \NC text \NC\NR \stoptabulate}
>
>%\ctxlua{tex.sprint(d)}
>
>\stoptext
>
>Wolfgang

Thank you Wolfgang!  That's certainly a step in the right direction.  But what I (and others?) really need is a way of passing any chunk of ConTeXt code into Lua.

When I changed '\starttabulate' to '\starttabulate[|l|p|]' in your solution above, it broke.

Thanks again,
Tad
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