From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: confusion about expansion
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:05:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7117ED90-F27D-4B06-AD24-4B45926E5DB0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53206865.1090800@sil.org>
Am 12.03.2014 um 15:00 schrieb Lars Huttar <lars_huttar@sil.org>:
> Hello,
> I've got a running page head like this in my document:
>
> \def\CurrentUser{\cldcontext{os.resultof"whoami"}}
>
> \def\Markname { Compiled \date by \CurrentUser \LUATEX +\ConTeXt\
> \contextversion }
>
> and later:
>
> \setlayer[cropmark][preset=lefttop,x=3cm,y=-1.5\lineheight]{\Markname}
>
> But when I run this, I get a UCS error that seems to indicate that the
> *result* of \CurrentUser ("waxhaw\huttar") is getting parsed as a
> command sequence.
When you want to pass a backslash to Lua you have to use \letterbackslash.
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-12 14:00 Lars Huttar
2014-03-12 14:05 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2014-03-12 14:12 ` Lars Huttar
2014-03-12 14:21 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-03-12 14:51 ` Lars Huttar
2014-03-12 15:06 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-03-12 15:45 ` Lars Huttar
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