Re: [NTG-context] printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails

2008-11-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, Here's a tiny question. The following command complains about undefined control sequence. \starttext \startluacode print('a\tb') print('a\\tb') \stopluacode hello \stoptext -

Re: [NTG-context] printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails

2008-11-27 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 26.11.2008 um 20:07 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: Hello, Here's a tiny question. The following command complains about undefined control sequence. \starttext \startluacode print('a\tb') print('a\t b') But then I get some unwanted

Re: [NTG-context] printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails

2008-11-27 Thread luigi scarso
OK, I will use external files next time. In this quick-and-dirty approach I just added string.format since it was easier than restructuring everything. I thought that \startluacode should be behaving the same way as verbatim environments where commands inside verbatim have no influence, but

Re: [NTG-context] printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails

2008-11-27 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 26.11.2008 um 20:07 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: Hello, Here's a tiny question. The following command complains about undefined control sequence. \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails

2008-11-27 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 9:42 AM, luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I will use external files next time. In this quick-and-dirty approach I just added string.format since it was easier than restructuring everything. I thought that \startluacode should be behaving the same way as

Re: [NTG-context] printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails

2008-11-27 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 9:42 AM, luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I will use external files next time. In this quick-and-dirty approach I just added string.format since it was easier than

Re: [NTG-context] printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails

2008-11-27 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: Correction: -- works as comments in luacode % is used to format strings It's a bit different: code below is ok, and TeX comment is seen before lua comment . Only Hello! is print on pdf %% \def\Foo{% \startluacode -- this is a

Re: [NTG-context] printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails

2008-11-27 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luigi scarso wrote: Correction: -- works as comments in luacode % is used to format strings It's a bit different: code below is ok, and TeX comment is seen before lua comment . Only Hello! is

Re: [NTG-context] printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails

2008-11-27 Thread luigi scarso
Correction: -- works as comments in luacode % is used to format strings It's a bit different: code below is ok, and TeX comment is seen before lua comment . Only Hello! is print on pdf %% \def\Foo{% \startluacode -- this is a lua comment %% this is a TeX comment

Re: [NTG-context] printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails

2008-11-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: I thought that \startluacode should be behaving the same way as verbatim environments where commands inside verbatim have no influence, but apparently I was wrong. no, more like MPcode where one can mix things if the luacode would not expand macros, then we'd need

[NTG-context] printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails

2008-11-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, Here's a tiny question. The following command complains about undefined control sequence. \starttext \startluacode print('a\tb') \stopluacode hello \stoptext There is a workaround: print(string.format('a\t%s', 'b')) but I find it weird. Even if the line above gets commented out with

Re: [NTG-context] printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails

2008-11-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 26.11.2008 um 20:07 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: Hello, Here's a tiny question. The following command complains about undefined control sequence. \starttext \startluacode print('a\tb') print('a\t b') \stopluacode hello \stoptext There is a workaround: