Re: How to use tex.print in ctxlua

[Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>]

Hi Pablo,

Thanks for your answer: actually I did not know that it is possible to concatenate so easily in lua… Your solution is indeed simpler than what I did and solves also the problem of the spurious space before the closing parenthesis.

Best regards: OK

> On 19 Mar 2017, at 16:56, Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es> wrote:
> 
> On 03/19/2017 04:30 PM, Otared Kavian wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I would like to print in a text the values of a array computed in a
>> \startluacode …. \stopluacode combination.
>> How can I do it properly? Please have a look at the example below
>> and its output, which is not satisfactory because the right parenthesis is
>> separated from the number by a space. How can I suppress this unwanted
>> space?
>> For instance I get (1, 103 ) instead of (1, 103).
> 
> Hi Otared,
> 
> is there any reason not to use the following instead of your way below?
> 
>  for i = 1,n do
>    tex.print("(" .. vecteurX[i] .. ", " .. vecteurY[i] .. ")\\par")
>  end
> 
>> 	for i = 1,n do
>> 		context("(") 
>> 		tex.print(vecteurX[i]) 
>> 		context(", ") 
>> 		tex.print(vecteurY[i])
>> 		tex.print(")")
>> 		context.par()
>> 	end
> 
> I think this is shorter and clearer (to me, at least).
> 
> Just in case it helps,
> 
> Pablo
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