Ah, ok, sorry, I've only come to Lua through Pandoc, so I'm often not aware 
of general Lua features. I will keep an eye open for the 'show' method.

T.

On Friday, May 5, 2023 at 7:26:41 AM UTC+2 Albert Krewinkel wrote:

>
> ThomasH <the...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
> > I just wished that would have been more apparent from the docs.
>
> The `tostring` function is the default Lua way to convert an object "to
> a string in a human-readable format". Still, I made a mental note to add
> better docs once we switch from a Haskell to a Lua representation as
> `tostring` output.
>
> The Haskell/native output will probably become available via show
> methods, as in `block:show()`. This already works for Block elements,
> but not for Inlines.
>
>
> >> Albert Krewinkel <albert...-9EawChwDxG8hFhg+JK9F0w@public.gmane.org> writes:
> >>
> >> > The alternative is to use `pandoc.write`, e.g.:
> >> >
> >> > print(pandoc.write(pandoc.Pandoc {element}))
> >>
> >> The above is missing the second parameter:
> >>
> >> print(pandoc.write(pandoc.Pandoc {element}, 'native'))
>
>
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