From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: TeX expansion within lua
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:25:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AD409088-13EA-4548-9502-6A06E9C16903@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120904201154.74c1ed67@homerow>
Am 04.09.2012 um 20:11 schrieb Marco Patzer <homerow@lavabit.com>:
> On 2012-09-04 Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there a good reason why you put \newdimen because dimen/count
>> etc. registers should always be defined once.
>
> The definitions are not in a macro, they are defined at the top of
> the file. I messed around while creating a minimal example. However,
> the problem remains the same since the assignment does not happen
> within Lua.
>
> But, thanks for the hint. I am always happy for improvements and
> feedback about my code.
What prevents you from setting the dimen value in Lua?
\starttext
\scratchdimen = 20pt
\the\scratchdimen
\ctxlua{tex.dimen.scratchdimen = "10pt"}
\the\scratchdimen
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-04 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-04 15:12 Marco Patzer
2012-09-04 15:28 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-09-04 16:54 ` Marco Patzer
2012-09-04 17:06 ` Martin Schröder
2012-09-04 17:40 ` Marco Patzer
2012-09-04 17:53 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-09-04 18:11 ` Marco Patzer
2012-09-04 18:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2012-09-04 18:58 ` Marco Patzer
2012-09-05 9:18 ` Hans Hagen
2012-09-05 9:42 ` Marco Patzer
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