Re: [NTG-context] format float numbers in luatex

2009-10-26 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Jorge, Regarding your first question try this: \starttext The square root of 2 is \ctxlua{tex.print(math.sqrt(2))}\dots, but usually the default value \ctxlua{tex.print(math.floor(1000*math.sqrt(2))/1000)} is considered to be a good approximation. \stoptext (There is also math.ceil)

Re: [NTG-context] format float numbers in luatex

2009-10-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 24.10.2009 um 18:59 schrieb batela: Dear Sirs, I'm looking a way to format float numbers. For example \ctxlua {text.print(sqrt(2))} give me 1.41421356237309504880 but i want 1.414. Is there a way to format real numbers. Note: I had tried \ctxlua{a = sqrt(a) ; aformat = string.format