[luatex] globally setting dimen registers from luatex code
Frank Mittelbach
frank.mittelbach at latex-project.org
Sun Apr 10 12:43:59 CEST 2016
sorry for the noise if this is trivial, but I was unable to figure it
out from the manual.
I have a dimen register \newdimen\foo
and want to set its value from within lua code.
tex.dimen.foo = 1000
works, but I'm unable to figure out how to do global settings or use
tex.set on foo (locally or globally).
Using a register like "parindent" works fine:
\newdimen\foo
\foo = 12pt
\directlua{
print("value of parindent: " .. tex.parindent)
tex.parindent = 1000
print("value of parindent: " .. tex.parindent)
tex.set("parindent", 2000)
print("value of parindent: " .. tex.parindent)
tex.set("global", "parindent", 3000)
print("value of parindent: " .. tex.parindent)
%
print("value of foo: " .. tex.dimen.foo)
tex.dimen.foo = 1000
print("value of foo: " .. tex.dimen.foo)
tex.set("foo", 2000)
print("value of foo: " .. tex.dimen.foo)
tex.set("global", "foo", 3000)
print("value of foo: " .. tex.dimen.foo)
}
\bye
this gives:
value of parindent: 1000
value of parindent: 2000
value of parindent: 3000
value of foo: 786432
value of foo: 1000
value of foo: 1000
value of foo: 1000
what am I doing wrong?
thanks
frank
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