From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:28:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <77677541-9A74-4E38-95DE-835B5ABFDD79@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00811261107k2c6d4d1bof2cecc9fb0e6f67b@mail.gmail.com>
Am 26.11.2008 um 20:07 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> Hello,
>
> Here's a tiny question. The following command complains about
> undefined control sequence.
>
> \starttext
> \startluacode
> print('a\tb')
print('a\t b')
> \stopluacode
> hello
> \stoptext
>
> There is a workaround:
> print(string.format('a\t%s', 'b'))
> but I find it weird. Even if the line above gets commented out with
> two dashes it still complains.
>
> I understand approximately why this happens, but is that intended?
> Should I be using something else than \startluacode in the plethora of
> different lua triggering commands?
\start/stopluacode is defined as \startluacode#1\stopluacode
(simplified) and you should take care of TeXs parsing rules.
If you want Lua comments and format command (\n, \t ...) use
a external file for your Lua code.
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-26 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-26 19:07 Mojca Miklavec
2008-11-26 19:28 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2008-11-27 8:29 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-11-27 8:42 ` luigi scarso
2008-11-27 9:02 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-11-27 9:28 ` luigi scarso
2008-11-27 10:17 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-11-27 11:48 ` luigi scarso
2008-11-27 12:03 ` Hans Hagen
2008-11-27 13:00 ` luigi scarso
2008-11-27 8:50 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-11-27 10:04 ` Hans Hagen
2008-11-27 8:13 ` Hans Hagen
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