[luatex] whatsit generation

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Thu May 12 10:47:02 CEST 2016


Hi,
> cool, just what I was looking for. I need to pass several values and in
> that case using the number type is not so good, right now I used string
> and decompose afterwards but a table is better

off topic:

in that case you could have done:

n.value = "return {ht = 100, wd = 10}"

t = load(n.value)() -- or loadstring depending on lua version

which is quite ok performance wise

Hans

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