On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Patrick Gundlach <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
\starttext
\directlua{
% create to glyph nodes
T=node.new(37)
T.char=84
T.font=1
E=node.new(37)
E.char=69
E.font=1
X=node.new(37)
X.char=88
X.font=1
space=node.new(37)
space.char=32
space.font=1
head=node.hpack(T)
head.dir = 'TLT'
h,n=node.insert_after(head,T,E)
h,n=node.insert_after(head,E,X)
head.width = 1451240
tex.setbox(0,head)
texio.write_nl(tex.wd[0])
}
\framed{\box0}
\stoptext
It's not correct -- I must set head.width = 1451240 by try and error
--
luigi
