Thank you Jairo!

I have tried playing around with letterpercent/catcodes as well, not sure
what I did wrong, but your examples work just fine, so thanks again.

Adam

On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 2:04 PM Jairo A. del Rio <jairoadelrio6@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi, Adam. There are some ways to do it. I'm sure there are many more, but
> I don't remember them right now. Hi, Hans. There's a bug (?) in
> syst-lua.lua related to \expression in MkIV (xmath and xcomplex aren't
> defined). Please fix that
>
>
> %Temporary hack for MkIV
>
> %Only use it in case \expression ... \relax doesn't work
>
> \startmkivmode
>
> \startluacode
>
> xmath = xmath or math
>
> xcomplex = xcomplex or {} --maybe math too???
>
> \stopluacode
>
> \stopmkivmode
>
> \starttext
>
> $\pi = \ctxlua{context("\letterpercent.6f", math.pi)}$
>
>
> $\pi = \expression string.format("\letterpercent.6f", pi)\relax$
>
>
> %Changing catcodes so $ and % are letter characters
>
> \startasciimode
>
> \m{\pi = \expression ("%.6f"):format(pi) \relax}
>
>
> \m{\pi = \ctxlua{context("%.6f", math.pi)}}
>
> \stopasciimode
>
> \stoptext
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Jairo
>
> El sáb, 29 de may. de 2021 a la(s) 07:32, Adam Reviczky (
> reviczky@gmail.com) escribió:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was trying to use a quick calculation like the new mathfun in lmtx for
>> an older mkiv document.
>>
>> MWE from the wiki:
>> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Programming_in_LuaTeX#Examples
>>
>> \starttext
>> $\pi = \ctxlua{context("\%.6f", math.pi)}$
>> \stoptext
>>
>> But that gives an error (actually for both lmtx and mkiv): token call,
>> syntax: [ctxlua]:1: invalid escape sequence near '"\%'
>>
>> Whereas
>>
>> \starttext
>> $\pi = \startluacode context("%.6f", math.pi) \stopluacode$
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Works fine as expected.
>>
>> Is there a way to escape the percentage sign in ctxlua as a format value?
>>
>> Adam
>>
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