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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Access ConTeXt dimensions in Lua
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 15:49:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <77beccd0-f923-4dd6-d535-708164aaa914@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BB716AD9-BF79-4AEA-A759-A066C05FC3B5@fiee.net>

On 10/8/2016 10:41 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I’m trying to write some dimensions to a file, e.g.
>
> \startluacode
> io.savedata("settings.txt", context("\\textwidth"))
> \stopluacode
>
> But that context() construct is nil.
> There’s probably a simple solution... ;)

\starttext

\startluacode
     io.savedata("settings.txt", number.topoints(tex.dimen.textwidth))
\stopluacode

\typefile{settings.txt}

\stoptext


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-09 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-08 20:41 Henning Hraban Ramm
2016-10-08 20:56 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2016-10-09 13:49 ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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