On 5/10/2016 2:45 PM, Frank Mittelbach wrote:
can somebody help with a (probably) trivial question?
I would like to generate a user-defined whatsit (8,44) with type = table
(116)
but my idea what "116 a Lua token list in Lua table form" means seems to
be wrong. I thought something like
local n = node.new ( 8, 44 ) %-- whatsit subtype = user-defined
n.user_id = 5
n.type = 116
n.value = {ht = 100 , dp = 10}
should work, but that doesn't seem to be right, at least n.value.ht is
"nil" afterwards
in current luatex user defined nodes have subtype 8
116 refers to tables that contain a token list (a table of triplets
starting with a ref count dummy) which is probably not that useful
as i was sure that at some point we added a lua table type too i checked
the manual and found out that we don't actually mantion it there
the magic type number is 108
(i'll update the manual)
Hans
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