[lltx] \luanewcommand?

[Khaled Hosny]

I think it'd be handy to have a \luanewcommand that is similar to
\newcommand but takes luacode instead of TeX macros, so one can do
something like:

\luanewcommand{\hello}[1]{tex.sprint("Hello #1")}

Instead of:
\newcommand{\hello}[1]{\directlua{tex.sprint("Hello #1")}}

This would make lua feel more integrated (and it may take care of spaces
and catcodes etc. so we can use lua comment char '--' etc.)

What do you think?

Regards,
 Khaled

P.S. I don't know enough TeX or LaTeX to dare doing it myself, I tried
looking at perltex.sty, but after few lines I closed the file and
started composing this message :)


-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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