Re: Bug (Lua) ?

[Hans van der Meer <havdmeer@ziggo.nl>]

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Lua strings can be split across lines by using so called long brackets according to the Lua Reference Manual:
[[split
string]]

or (very first newline ignored):
[[
split
string]]

or with matched levels: [==[ .... ]==]

dr. Hans van der Meer


> On 19 Mar 2020, at 14:29, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2020, mf wrote:
> 
>> Il 19/03/20 11:20, Fabrice Couvreur ha scritto:
>>> Hi,
>>> this file did not pose any problems but today yes.
>>> Thank you.
>>> Fabrice
>>> \starttext
>>> \startluacode
>>> local letters_1 = { "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J" }
>>> local letters_2 = { "1", "Année", "1998", "1999", "2000", "2001", "2002",
>>> "2003", "2004", "2005","2006" }
>>> context.startxtable({"align={middle,lohi},
>>> width=1.2cm,offset=0.8ex,bodyfont=9pt"})
>> 
>> context.startxtable( { align = "middle,lohi", width = "1.2cm", offset = "0.8ex", bodyfont = "9pt" } )
>> 
>> The argument is a lua table. Values are usually strings.
>> 
>>> context.startxrow({"background=color,backgroundcolor=green"})
>> 
>> context.startxrow( { background = "color", backgroundcolor = "green" } )
>> 
>> ... and so on.
> 
> A table with just one string entry also works, but lua strings cannot be split across lines. So, if you remove the newline after "align={middle,lohi}, that also works.
> 
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