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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Problem Passing \starttabulate into Lua
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:28:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F1163D1E-F1AD-4E63-BCBE-F54E295C4957@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68E5AC30CE6FA94DB0C3B4E3294B5D3103754222EA@ES01SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov>


Am 29.12.2008 um 13:56 schrieb Ashlock, Tad A:

> On 2008-12-28 at 15:33, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> Am 27.12.2008 um 12:20 schrieb Tad Ashlock:
>>> I'm trying to create a ConTeXt macro (mkiv) that will manipulate the
>>> macro argument's text with Lua and then feed it back into ConTeXt
>>> with tex.print().  My approach worked correctly until I called the
>>> macro with \starttabulate ... \stoptabulate in the macro's
>>> argument.  So I started reducing the problem down to a minimum
>>> example which surprisingly turned out to have nothing to do with the
>>> manipulations I was performing.
> [snip]
>>
>> \def\testmacro
>>  {\bgroup
>>   \catcode`\\=12
>>   \dotestmacro}
>>
>> \def\dotestmacro#1
>>  {\ctxlua{d='\luaescapestring{#1}'}%
>>   \egroup}
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \testmacro{\starttabulate \NC text \NC text \NC\NR \stoptabulate}
>>
>> %\ctxlua{tex.sprint(d)}
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Wolfgang
>
> Thank you Wolfgang!  That's certainly a step in the right  
> direction.  But what I (and others?) really need is a way of passing  
> any chunk of ConTeXt code into Lua.

Everything you pass to Lua is expanded and this did not work
with macros that contain \dosingleempty (or \dodoubleempty etc.).

\def\command
   {\dosingleempty\docommand}

\def\docommand[#1]{#1}

\def\testmacro#1%
   {\ctxlua{d='\luaescapestring{#1}'}}

\starttext

\testmacro{\docommand[text]} % works

\testmacro{\command[text]} % fails

\stoptext

> When I changed '\starttabulate' to '\starttabulate[|l|p|]' in your  
> solution above, it broke.

Try to escape the |, it's a active character in ConTeXt but this
could work (untested):

\def\testmacro
   {\bgroup
    \catcode`\\=12
    \catcode`\|=12
    \dotestmacro}

Wolfgang

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-29 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-27 11:20 Tad Ashlock
2008-12-28 22:33 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-12-29 12:56   ` Ashlock, Tad A
2008-12-29 13:14     ` luigi scarso
2008-12-29 13:28     ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2008-12-30  9:06       ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-01-01 11:00 ` Wolfgang Schuster

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