Dear Aditya, Hans
Both solutions work well.
It is really efficient to write matrix in ConTeXt + lua.
I am enjoying the benefit of lua in ConTeXt.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Dalyoung
>
> \definehspace[skip][3em]
> \starttext
> \startluacode
> context("Some text")
> context.hspace{"skip"}
> context("More text")
> \stopluacode
> \stoptext
>
>
> Aditya
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:40:01 +0200
> From: Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl>
> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] making horizontal space in luacode.
> Message-ID: <5084f851.7050...@wxs.nl>
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>
> On 22-10-2012 07:15, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Jeong Dal wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> 1. I'd like to make a horizontal space using \hspace[3em] inside luacode.
>>>
>>> But context.hspace({3em}), context.hspace({"3em"}),
>>> context.hspace("3em") don't work.
>>> And print(" ") doesn't work either.
>>>
>>> How to make some horizontal space in luacode?
>>
>>
>> \hspace does not accept dimensions. The syntax for hspace is
>>
>> \definehspace[whatever][3em]
>>
>> \hspace[whatever].
>>
>> So, you need:
>>
>> \definehspace[skip][3em]
>> \starttext
>> \startluacode
>> context("Some text")
>> context.hspace{"skip"}
>> context("More text")
>> \stopluacode
>> \stoptext
>
> Indeed this is the best way. At some point I'll wrap primitives (maybe
> in another namespace). If you really want to use context.hskip, you can
> say context.hskip(false,"10pt plus 5pt") etc as a first false argument
> will signal a drop of {}.
>
> Hans
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