Re: [NTG-context] What is the luatex version of \pdfescapehex

6 Jan 2010

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On 6-1-2010 2:33, Zhichu Chen wrote:
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Hi,
I've written a very old module which used a lot of pdf primitives like
\pdfescapehex
and \pdfescapename etc. and it turns out not they don't work in mkiv.
So I just want
to know are there any alternatives?
just lua code as placeholders for primitives will not show up in context
mkiv
\startluacode
   local texsprint, ctxcatcodes = tex.sprint, tex.ctxcatcodes
   local gsub, format, byte = string.gsub, string.format, string.byte
   function commands.hexify(str)
       texsprint(ctxcatcodes,(gsub(str,".",function(s) return
format("%0X",byte(s)) end)))
   end
\stopluacode
\long\def\hexify#1{\ctxlua{commands.hexify([[#1]])}}
\hexify{I wonder why this is needed.}
btw, if your old module produces pdf and uses other \pdf... primitives it's
unlikely to work with mkiv anyway so you'd better check if it's still needed
Yes, \pdffilemoddate, \pdffilesize, \pdfmdfivesum are kind of disabled as well,
I'm not familiar with lua at all, so I don't know how to replace them with the
lua version. I did change your code format("%0X",byte(s)) with
Thank you Hans,

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Hans Hagen  wrote:
format("%s",byte(s))
and it worked as \pdfescapename. I hope I'm not too wrong.

Anyway, my ancient module just write directly with pdfobj, I just commented
the /ModDate parameters and seems just fine now.

I think I really need to learn some lua. Thank you again for your time.
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Hans
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