From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@docwolves.nl>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>, dev-luatex@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: [Dev-luatex] new/missing feature in luamplib
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:33:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86A1AFB8-7483-4B6A-9A52-758DECEF6B96@docwolves.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5020CDFC.50208@wxs.nl>
Hi,
On Aug 7, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 7-8-2012 09:29, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
>> Hi Manuel, Everybody,
>>
>> I am just getting into LuaLaTeX.
>>
>> I needed to do some work with MetaPost.
>>
>> While working I came across a kudo. That is once inside the mblibcode
>> environment one can not call Lua. THIS I consider a missing feature and
>> a VERY important one.
>
> Some (simple) support for lua calls is on the (long term) agenda but not before the current mplib extensions project is done (i.e. the decimal calculation plugins).
>
> Calling lua in itself is not so much an issue; after all one can just do a \directlua inside a blob of mp passed to mplib (I do that all the time).
I was under the impression that this was all that the proposed patch does. Luamplib
did not allow any (tex nor lua) escapes within the block, if I understand correctly.
Best wishes,
Taco
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2012-08-07 8:12 ` Hans Hagen
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