Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
Hallo,
I have a few silly questions about
tex.print()
To produce
$\sqrt{2}=1.4142135623731$
it should be enough to write
tex.print("$\\sqrt{2}=" .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$")
this is because \\ can mean anything, for instance it may expand to \par or \crlf or .. there is a \luaescapestring primitive which catches things like quotes tex.print("\detokenize{$\sqrt{2}=}" .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$") may also work ok
or better
tex.print([[$\sqrt{2}=]] .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$")
but that's both not working. The following instead does the job:
tex.print("$\string\\sqrt{2}=" .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$")
why?
Another question:
What is the differenz between 'tex.sprint()' and 'tex.write()'?
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