From: Sietse Brouwer <sbbrouwer@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Accessing string contents of a macro in Lua.
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:51:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF=dkzzxVboDfPVX+v14c4LyDOkkPgvTkEwZghpQ2aTxChpe5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi all,
Below are three methods of defining a dimension / dimension string in
ConTeXt --- the first two boil down to storing a string in a macro,
the last is a proper TeX dimen. I want to access these dimensions from
Lua.
I can access the dimen via tex.dimen.ColumnC, but how can I access the
macro contents?
If there is no solution, I can always explicitly pass the value to Lua with
\ctxlua{var = '\measure{ColumnA}'}
, but I want to know if there is a Lua-only method to get these values.
%% MWE
\definemeasure[ColumnA][10mm]
\def\ColumnB{20mm}
\newdimen\ColumnC
\ColumnC=30mm
\startluacode
-- print values to stdout
logs.report('====')
logs.report('ColumnA', context.measure('ColumnA'))
logs.report('ColumnB', context.ColumnB)
logs.report('ColumnC', tex.dimen.ColumnC) -- prints in scaled points
print('====')
\stopluacode
Cheers,
Sietse
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next reply other threads:[~2013-04-24 15:51 UTC|newest]
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2013-04-24 15:51 Sietse Brouwer [this message]
2013-04-24 16:50 ` luigi scarso
2013-04-24 19:21 ` Hans Hagen
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