On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Sietse Brouwer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Below are three methods of defining a dimension / dimension string in
> ConTeXt --- the first two boil down to storing a string in a macro,
> the last is a proper TeX dimen. I want to access these dimensions from
> Lua.
>
> I can access the dimen via tex.dimen.ColumnC, but how can I access the
> macro contents?
> If there is no solution, I can always explicitly pass the value to Lua with
>
> \ctxlua{var = '\measure{ColumnA}'}
>
> , but I want to know if there is a Lua-only method to get these values.
>
> %% MWE
> \definemeasure[ColumnA][10mm]
>
> \def\ColumnB{20mm}
not a general solution
%%%
\def\ColumnB{20mm}
\starttext
\startluacode
local c = "\\csname ColumnB\\endcsname"
context("ColumnB=%s",c)
\stopluacode
\par
\toks0=\expandafter{\ColumnB}
\startluacode
context("ColumnB=%s",tex.toks[0])
\stopluacode
\stoptext
--
luigi
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