Hi All,
I am not very TeX-savvy, yet a decent programmer and am therefore
embarsing Lua(La)TeX.
I am working on some code to automatically generate graphics from Lua-code.
I was disappointed by two facts of the luamplib package.
1) The documentation fails to mention, when using \begin{mplibcode} it MUST be
on a single line of it own! Furthermore, there MUST be a linebreak before
\end{mplib}
This may be obvious to the developers and experienced users of Metapost,
but is not
to the casual user!
2) The other is the lack to call Lua from within the mplibcode environment!
This would be a handy feature. Or at least a possiblitily to call Lua from
within
the mplibcode. It should not be that hard, in my knowledge to catch such
a command,
and call a Lua-function, that returns a string of metapost commands and
feed that
to mplib.
I would like is to do something in Lua(La)TeX as:
\begin{mplibcode}
...
\directlua(outputMetapostCommands(....))
...
\end{mplibcode}
Yes, I can get around this by using directlua-calls, but then I have to write a
Lua function for
every Metapost image I want to produce. Having a way to call a Lua function
that outputs
metapost snippets would be handierand would increase the flexibility of the
package greatly.
If there is a way, already to do this I would appreciate any pointers.
Keep up the good work.
Thanx in advance
regards
Keith.
