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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: deeptextcommand and firstcharacter
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:55:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D66D8555-1E32-4749-9F30-650E9DAA75C9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAANrE7oQwn42Z5DSi0AW9NjHG6Y=o6mAZuEUrKjfaz8bA6dOLw@mail.gmail.com>


Am 21.09.2013 um 20:46 schrieb Thangalin <thangalin@gmail.com>:

> Hi, Wolfgang.
> 
> I tried dropping in the Lua code, but it does not extract the text:
> 
> \define[1]\StyleChapter{%
>   \StyleChapterFramed{%
>     \framed[align=right, frame=off]{%
>       \startoverlay
>         \color[ColourSecondaryLightest]{%
>           \cldcontext{string.sub(#1,0,1)}

\cldcontext{string.sub("#1",0,1)}%

>         }
>         \vskip-1.9em\hskip1.2em#1
>       \stopoverlay
>     }
>   }
> }

When this doesn’t help you have to provide a complete minimal example.

> ! LuaTeX error [string "\directlua "]:1: bad argument #1 to 'sub' (string expected, got nil)
> 
> I've tried a few variations:
> 
>           \directlua{string.sub(tex.sprint("\luatexluaescapestring{#1}") }
>           \directlua{string.sub("\luatexluaescapestring{#1}",0,1)}
>           \directlua{string.sub(tex.sprint("#1"),0,1)}
>           \cldcontext{string.sub(tex.sprint("#1"),0,1)}

1. You have to use string.sub in the parameters of tex.sprint.

2. ConTeXt uses \luaescapestring.

3. We use in ConTeXt \ctxlua instead of \directlua.

Wolfgang
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-21 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-21  5:50 Thangalin
2013-09-21  9:56 ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-21 17:11   ` Thangalin
2013-09-21 17:13     ` Thangalin
2013-09-21 17:43     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-21 18:46       ` Thangalin
2013-09-21 18:48         ` Thangalin
2013-09-21 18:55         ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2013-09-21 20:04     ` Hans Hagen

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