From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/77792 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context,gmane.comp.tex.luatex Subject: Re: [Dev-luatex] new/missing feature in luamplib Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:33:04 +0200 Message-ID: <86A1AFB8-7483-4B6A-9A52-758DECEF6B96@docwolves.nl> References: <30B8277D-B6D7-4920-A050-F51B9DA459E6@web.de> <5020CDFC.50208@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1278) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344328412 7203 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2012 08:33:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 08:33:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users , dev-luatex@ntg.nl To: Hans Hagen Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 07 10:33:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SyfEJ-0001tW-3V for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:33:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AE310210; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:33:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id n7FgiDosavax; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:33:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1099010200; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:33:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B035510206 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:33:26 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id PrUfCc4bqtFp for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:33:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter5-til.mf.surf.net (filter5-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.221]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF91F101F3 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:33:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter5-til.mf.surf.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filter5-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q778TMZn021036 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:29:31 +0200 Original-Received: (from defang@localhost) by filter5-til.mf.surf.net (CanIt-Domain-PRO/Streamed) id q778TCd2006007 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:29:12 +0200 Original-Received: from server5.aanhet.net (server5.aanhet.net [195.12.62.5]) by filter5-til.mf.surf.net (envelope-sender ) (CanIt-Domain-PRO/Pre-stream) with ESMTP id q778TBGt020891; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:29:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (server5.aanhet.net [127.0.0.1]) by server5.aanhet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B9F2000B40; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:33:05 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at server5.aanhet.net Original-Received: from server5.aanhet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server5.aanhet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with LMTP id Po-MhO0JQnwy; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:33:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from dhcp126.crown.docwolves.com (a83-163-174-10.adsl.xs4all.nl [83.163.174.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server5.aanhet.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 001572000532; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:33:04 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <5020CDFC.50208@wxs.nl> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1278) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=195.12.62.5; country=NL; latitude=52.5000; longitude=5.7500; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5000,5.7500&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0WHHItv4V - a730b5d3284f - 20120807 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.221 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:77792 gmane.comp.tex.luatex:2809 Archived-At: 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. 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