On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > luigi scarso wrote: > >> While grepping, I've found >> in base/node-ini.lua >> ..... >> --[[ldx-- >>

Serializing nodes can be handy for tracing. Also, saving and >> loading node lists can come in handy as soon we are going to >> use external applications to process node lists.

>> --ldx]]-- >> ..... >> >> >> \starttext >> \setbox100=\vbox{Hi} >> \ctxlua{io.savedata('vbox.hi',nodes.serializebox(100,true, true))} >> Box reuse:\blank >> \box100 >> \blank >> \ctxlua{initt=loadfile('vbox.hi');initt();tex.box[100] = >> nodes.FromTableToNodeButItnotExists(t)} >> %%actually an empty box, of course >> \box100 >> \stoptext >> >> I was not able to find a "table2node" function ie >> nodes.FromTableToNodeButItnotExists(t) >> > > indeed, that has a low priority > > ok , no problem at all. I doesn't seem very difficult, probably I will give it a try. -- luigi