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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font face="Courier New">Hi,</font><BR><font face="Courier New"></font> <BR><font face="Courier New">I am a newbie in LuaTeX but it's very interesting. </font><BR><font face="Courier New"></font> <BR><font face="Courier New">We can define a macro like this:</font><BR><font face="Courier New"></font> <BR><font face="Courier New">\def\foo#1{%</font><BR><font face="Courier New"> \directlua{var = [[#1]]; tex.print(var)}</font><BR><font face="Courier New"> % can I access "var" below?</font><BR><font face="Courier New"> ...}</font><BR><font face="Courier New"></font> <BR><font face="Courier New">can I access this global variable "var" in the other part of \foo? </font><BR><font face="Courier New"></font> <BR><font face="Courier New">Best regards,</font><BR><font face="Courier New">Tim<BR><br id="FontBreak"><BR></font> </div></body>
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