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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: making horizontal space in luacode.
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:15:57 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1210220113380.30190@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E4C6AA5A-3108-4D77-BD31-40FD212C794B@me.com>

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Jeong Dal wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> 1. I'd like to make a horizontal space using \hspace[3em] inside luacode.
>
> But  context.hspace({3em}), context.hspace({"3em"}), context.hspace("3em") don't work.
> And print("   ") doesn't work either.
>
> How to make some horizontal space in luacode?


\hspace does not accept dimensions. The syntax for hspace is

\definehspace[whatever][3em]

\hspace[whatever].

So, you need:

\definehspace[skip][3em]
\starttext
\startluacode
   context("Some text")
   context.hspace{"skip"}
   context("More text")
\stopluacode
\stoptext


Aditya
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-22  5:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-22  4:25 Jeong Dal
2012-10-22  5:15 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2012-10-22  7:40   ` Hans Hagen
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2012-10-22 11:56 ` Jeong Dal

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