[Dev-luatex] .BEILMOPS or how I stopped worrying and love Open Source

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:40:07PM +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> General remark: suck attempts to squeeze tex input to behave
> like lua source code are hard to debug and even harder to
> predict. It is much less confusing if you create either an
> environment like
> 
>    \startluacode
>    ..
>    \stopluacode
> 
> with appropriate catcode changes, 

And \endlinechar=10 \catcode10=12 to enable the Lua parser
seeing multiple lines instead of one merged huge line.

> or if you put the lua code
> in a separate file and dofile('thefile').

Or use Lua's module management and make a separate file as module:
  module('foobar', package.seeall)
  ...
That get's loaded via
  require('foobar')

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>