Hello all,
what would be the lua equivalent of
\setbox0\vbox{hello world}
\the\ht0
? That is, what would I write inside \directlua{ ... } to get the
same
effect?
Pseudo code appreciated.
Patrick
download last source
luatex-beta-0.43.0/manual/luatexref-t.pdf
and see 4.1.5 Box registers
OK, let's start with a simple hbox. This very naive approach does not
work:
\directlua{
% create to glyph nodes
a=node.new(37)
a.char=144
a.font=1
b=node.new(37)
b.char=145
b.font=1
h,n=node.insert_after(nil,a,b)
% turn it into an hbox:
p=node.hpack(h)
tex.setbox(0,p)
texio.write_nl(tex.wd[0])
% result: 0
}
What should I do? Any idea? Probably this would be obvious if I knew
TeX internals. But I don't.
Patrick
