Dear Aditya, Hans Both solutions work well.
It is really efficient to write matrix in ConTeXt + lua. I am enjoying the benefit of lua in ConTeXt. Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung > > \definehspace[skip][3em] > \starttext > \startluacode > context("Some text") > context.hspace{"skip"} > context("More text") > \stopluacode > \stoptext > > > Aditya > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:40:01 +0200 > From: Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] making horizontal space in luacode. > Message-ID: <5084f851.7050...@wxs.nl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 22-10-2012 07:15, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Jeong Dal wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> 1. I'd like to make a horizontal space using \hspace[3em] inside luacode. >>> >>> But context.hspace({3em}), context.hspace({"3em"}), >>> context.hspace("3em") don't work. >>> And print(" ") doesn't work either. >>> >>> How to make some horizontal space in luacode? >> >> >> \hspace does not accept dimensions. The syntax for hspace is >> >> \definehspace[whatever][3em] >> >> \hspace[whatever]. >> >> So, you need: >> >> \definehspace[skip][3em] >> \starttext >> \startluacode >> context("Some text") >> context.hspace{"skip"} >> context("More text") >> \stopluacode >> \stoptext > > Indeed this is the best way. At some point I'll wrap primitives (maybe > in another namespace). If you really want to use context.hskip, you can > say context.hskip(false,"10pt plus 5pt") etc as a first false argument > will signal a drop of {}. > > Hans ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________