From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Using lua with the command line for "macros"
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 03:17:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsAWj4KrTKnx5rr30H+dRmeThqkdYCshr5bORnbOEjvgpw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131014010107.GA13627@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in>
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>wrote:
> Hi.
>
> At the outset, I understand that this is a slight abuse of LuaTeX and
> this can be done with plain TeX. Nevertheless, I'd like to see if a
> solution exists for this approach.
>
> I'm trying to use Lua with ConTeXt as a macro preprocessor. To be more
> clear, I have files A.lua, B.lua which define some variables:
>
> A.lua:
> var1 = "something for a"
> var2 = "something else for a"
>
> B.lua:
> var1 = "something for b"
> var2 = "something else for b"
>
> And, in my ConTeXt file, I would write:
> …
> I will get \directlua{tex.print(var1) and \directlua{tex.print(var2)}.
> …
>
> Now, with lualatex, I use the --lua command line option to pass the
> initial lua file name. However, for context, I've not found a way to
> do this. Could someone please advise me?
>
Have you seen
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cld-mkiv.pdf
?
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luigi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-14 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-14 1:01 Kumar Appaiah
2013-10-14 1:17 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2013-10-14 1:31 ` Kumar Appaiah
2013-10-14 2:48 ` Kumar Appaiah
2013-10-14 7:47 ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-14 11:45 ` Kumar Appaiah
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