Am 04.09.2012 um 20:11 schrieb Marco Patzer <home...@lavabit.com>: > On 2012-09-04 Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is there a good reason why you put \newdimen because dimen/count >> etc. registers should always be defined once. > > The definitions are not in a macro, they are defined at the top of > the file. I messed around while creating a minimal example. However, > the problem remains the same since the assignment does not happen > within Lua. > > But, thanks for the hint. I am always happy for improvements and > feedback about my code.
What prevents you from setting the dimen value in Lua? \starttext \scratchdimen = 20pt \the\scratchdimen \ctxlua{tex.dimen.scratchdimen = "10pt"} \the\scratchdimen \stoptext Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________