[luatex] macros to invoke lua in LaTeX

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:21:28PM +1030, Will Robertson wrote:

> On 2009-03-05 18:49:15 +1030, Taco Hoekwater 
> <taco at elvenkind.com> said:
> 
> >For example, right at the start of luatex, we threw out a bunch of
> >primitives from Heiko Oberdiek and myself that provide various scripting
> >subroutines for use inside pdftex.
> 
> I'm curious, are these the primitives like \pdfescape..., 
> \pdfmdfivesum, \pdf...deviate, \pdffilemoddate, and so on? (Sorry, I'm 
> not up to date on all of the new primitives of LuaTeX.)

See package `pdftexcmds', there I define the missing primitives
by using Lua functions.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>