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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Real number with Lua
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 10:31:42 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1704191028530.44041@nqv-znpobbx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.yyx4vws362epfj@lprx>

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On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Procházka Lukáš Ing. wrote:

> Hello,
>
> do you mean this? - It shows EXACTLY 3 digits after the decimal point:
>
> ----
> \cldcontext{string.format("\letterpercent.3f", 5.8/1.6)}
>
> \cldcontext{string.format(string.char(37) .. ".3f", 5.8/1.6)}
>
> \startluacode
>   context(string.format("%.3f", 5.8/1.6))
> \stopluacode

\startluacode context("%0.3f", 5.8/1.6) \stopluacode

is simpler.

Also see: 
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Programming_in_LuaTeX#Arithmetic_without_using_an_abacus

Aditya

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-19 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-19 13:25 Fabrice Couvreur
2017-04-19 14:04 ` Otared Kavian
2017-04-19 14:19   ` Fabrice Couvreur
2017-04-19 14:22 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing.
2017-04-19 17:31   ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2017-04-19 14:23 ` Herbert Voss

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