On 12 Apr 2008 at 9:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 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 ..
May be I do not understand this right, but I thought that '\' is luas
escape character and tex.print() returns '\' not '\\'. So TeX sees no
macro '\\' which could expand to whatever.
> there is a \luaescapestring primitive which catches things like
> quotes
Can you make a little example of usage?
> tex.print("\detokenize{$\sqrt{2}=}" .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$")
Could not find the definition of \detokenize.
Wolfgang
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