Re: [NTG-context] How to get parameters in lua

21 Sep 2014


      On 9/20/2014 2:45 PM, Christoph Reller wrote:
...
Two general questions arise (if your permit):
1. Where are the key-value pairs stored?
In your first solution you handle the key setting by explicitly calling
lua on every \setup<name> call.  It seems that all key-value pairs (that
are set with \installcommandhandler-generated \setup<name>) are stored
on the TeX side and not on the lua side.  Is this correct?
yes and getting the macro meaning at the lua end is not efficient as it 
is tokenized
...
2. Calling \ctxlua from lua.
I was tempted to add another level of indirection to your second (the
"synchronize") solution.  I.e: in the lua code (in a separate lua file
to avoid the do ... end introduced by \startluacode .... \stopluacode) I
have:
n = ""
v = ""
function getkey(name,value)
    n = name
    v = value
end
function myfun(parameters,content)
    context([[\ctxlua{getkey("gkey","\elemparameter{gkey}")}]])
    context(" name=")
    context(n)
    context(", value=")
    context(v)
end
The above does not work because the value obtained "lags behind", i.e.
initially v will be "", on the second call v will have the value of the
first \setupelem[gkey=gval], and so on.  I guess this lag is due to the
way TeX and lua communicate to each other?
indeed, all printed to tex is injected into the input after the lua call 
ends
...
A small question: What do you mean by "there is no grouping in lua"?
\bgroup
   ... some assignment at the tex end
   ... followed by setting it in lua
\bgroup

... forgotten at the tex end
... still set at the lua end
...
Thank you anyway for your valuable input.
Regards, Christoph
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