Graham Douglas wrote:
Dear All
I am getting some strange behaviour with the following minimal example via LaTeX with LuaTeX
\pdfoutput=1 \documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document} \directlua{tex.print("{\it abc}")} \end{document}
I run the above and get a PDF which displays the following text
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\directlua expands its argument (like what happens when writing to a file), but font switches tend to expand into internal commands. On top of that, lua strings interpret \ as an escape character. To circumvent both problems at the same time, you can do this: \pdfoutput=1 \let\\\relax \directlua{tex.print("{\\it abc}")} \bye Which should also work in latex (except that it trashes the normal meaning of \\, of course). I am pretty sure that there will be a latex package that deals with all this expansion stuff for you. Best wishes, Taco