On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 04:26:16PM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Am 2018-02-08 um 15:34 schrieb Rudolf Bahr <qu...@quasi.de>:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 09:30:48AM +0100, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> >> On 02/07/2018 06:39 PM, Rudolf Bahr wrote:
> >>> Sometimes the necessity could arise to send data from lua to context
> >>> and answers back to lua. I tried this by using "read" and
> >>> "immediate\write" commands in context. These commands are described
> >>> in chapter 21 and 22 of Donald E. Knuth's "The TeXbook".
> >>>
> >>> My question is: Do there exist better and more simple solutions?
> >>
> >> You can print (typeset) information from inside lua code with the "context"
> >> function. Have you seen the manual cld-mkiv.pdf? It's in the minimals.
> >>
> >> Thomas
> >
> > Yes, thank you. I tried "context()" several times, but without success.
> > Could be, that I have a false meaning how to use it: If I transfer data
> > from context to lua and vice versa then in my imagination there must be
> > variables in both languages where the sent data is to be found.
> >
> > With the use of "\immediate\write" and "\read" in context and the read and
> > write
> > functions in lua I know exactly from where to where the data goes. How to
> > do
> > the same with "context()"?
> \startluacode
>
> function SomeFunction()
> context("Value")
> end
>
> \stopluacode
>
> \def\MyVar{\ctxlua{SomeFunction()}}
>
YES! That's what I needed to get back data from lua to context!
Many thanks to Hraban, Hans and Thomas for your help!
Rudolf
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