[lltx] [luatexbase] Allocating attributes from lua

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sun May 23 18:27:00 CEST 2010


On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 04:38:15PM +0200, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just implemented the following:
> 
> - <number> luatexbase.new_attribute(<string> name, <any type> silent = nil)
> Allocates a new attribute, without associated TeX CS, and returns the allocated
> number. If an error occurs, call error() in silent is false (default) or return
> -1 (error handling up to the caller) is silent is true.
> 
> - luatexbase.unset_attribute(<string> name)
> Unsets the named attribute.
> 
> I changed the TeX macros to be wrappers around these functions.
> 
> I hope it's what you asked for, otherwise please complain :-)

Great! I updated luaotfload accordingly.

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
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