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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