What is the luatex version of \pdfescapehex

What is the luatex version of \pdfescapehex

[Zhichu Chen]

Hi,

I've written a very old module which used a lot of pdf primitives like
\pdfescapehex
and \pdfescapename etc. and it turns out not they don't work in mkiv.
So I just want
to know are there any alternatives?

TIA

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Re: What is the luatex version of \pdfescapehex

[Hans Hagen]

On 6-1-2010 2:33, Zhichu Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've written a very old module which used a lot of pdf primitives like
> \pdfescapehex
> and \pdfescapename etc. and it turns out not they don't work in mkiv.
> So I just want
> to know are there any alternatives?

just lua code as placeholders for primitives will not show up in context 
mkiv

\startluacode
     local texsprint, ctxcatcodes = tex.sprint, tex.ctxcatcodes
     local gsub, format, byte = string.gsub, string.format, string.byte
     function commands.hexify(str)
         texsprint(ctxcatcodes,(gsub(str,".",function(s) return 
format("%0X",byte(s)) end)))
     end
\stopluacode

\long\def\hexify#1{\ctxlua{commands.hexify([[#1]])}}


\hexify{I wonder why this is needed.}


btw, if your old module produces pdf and uses other \pdf... primitives 
it's unlikely to work with mkiv anyway so you'd better check if it's 
still needed

Hans

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Re: What is the luatex version of \pdfescapehex

[Zhichu Chen]

Thank you Hans,

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 6-1-2010 2:33, Zhichu Chen wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've written a very old module which used a lot of pdf primitives like
>> \pdfescapehex
>> and \pdfescapename etc. and it turns out not they don't work in mkiv.
>> So I just want
>> to know are there any alternatives?
>
> just lua code as placeholders for primitives will not show up in context
> mkiv
>
> \startluacode
>    local texsprint, ctxcatcodes = tex.sprint, tex.ctxcatcodes
>    local gsub, format, byte = string.gsub, string.format, string.byte
>    function commands.hexify(str)
>        texsprint(ctxcatcodes,(gsub(str,".",function(s) return
> format("%0X",byte(s)) end)))
>    end
> \stopluacode
>
> \long\def\hexify#1{\ctxlua{commands.hexify([[#1]])}}
>
>
> \hexify{I wonder why this is needed.}
>
>
> btw, if your old module produces pdf and uses other \pdf... primitives it's
> unlikely to work with mkiv anyway so you'd better check if it's still needed
Yes, \pdffilemoddate, \pdffilesize, \pdfmdfivesum are kind of disabled as well,
I'm not familiar with lua at all, so I don't know how to replace them with the
lua version. I did change your code format("%0X",byte(s)) with
format("%s",byte(s))
and it worked as \pdfescapename. I hope I'm not too wrong.

Anyway, my ancient module just write directly with pdfobj, I just commented
the /ModDate parameters and seems just fine now.

I think I really need to learn some lua. Thank you again for your time.

>
> Hans
>
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Re: What is the luatex version of \pdfescapehex

[Zhichu Chen]

Sorry to my previous posts. I found a LaTeX package named pdftexcmds
and the lua script works just fine.
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