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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: Alan Braslau <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Passing data back and forth between metapost and lua
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:01:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1703191058280.23375@nqv-znpobbx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161220151454.279d427c@zoo.hsd1.co.comcast.net>

On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, Alan Braslau wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:19:25 -0800
> Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> The ability to pass parameters to metapost has been around since the
>> beginning. See the metafun manual for details (search for MPvar).
>
> Hans has developed tools making it quite easy to pass data back and
> forth between MetaPost and lua. This is quite efficient, and it is
> being used more and more in the development of macro functionality.

I finally need to write a macro where I want to pass data from lua to 
metapost. I could not find an example in the source code showing this. 
Can someone show a basic example of how lua-metapost interface works or 
point me to the appropriate files in the source.

Thanks,
Aditya
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-19 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-19  7:41 Asymptote or Metapost and ConTeXt parameters Jaroslav Hajtmar
2016-12-19  9:10 ` Fabrice Couvreur
2016-12-19  9:43   ` Hans Hagen
2016-12-19 16:19 ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-12-20 10:34   ` Jaroslav Hajtmar
2016-12-22  4:49     ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-12-23  8:02       ` Jaroslav Hajtmar
2016-12-23 19:22         ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-12-23 20:28           ` Hans Hagen
2016-12-24  2:55           ` Jaroslav Hajtmar
2016-12-24  3:05             ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-12-20 22:14   ` Alan Braslau
2016-12-21  7:49     ` Aditya Mahajan
2017-03-19 18:01     ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2017-03-19 18:29       ` Passing data back and forth between metapost and lua Aditya Mahajan
2017-03-19 19:02         ` Hans Hagen

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