[luatex] \input from Lua.

[luigi scarso]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Paul Isambert <zappathustra at free.fr> wrote:
> Le 31/01/2011 10:35, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit :
>>
>> Am 29.01.2011 um 11:45 schrieb Paul Isambert:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to make TeX read a file from the Lua interface? The best I
>>> can do is to issue:
>>>
>>> tex.print("\\input{" .. file .. "}")
>>>
>>> or something similar. But that is most inconvenient, and anyway it
>>> doesn't work in an initialization script. (What I do in such a script is
>>> register a function in "process_input_buffer" that returns the first line
>>> prefixed with the desired \input statements, and then unregisters itself at
>>> once. But that's horrible, it looks like a dirty trick!)
>>
>> With ConTeXt you write the above as “context.input("<file>")”.
>>
>> http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cld-mkiv.pdf
>
> Thanks, Wolfgang. Too bad I don't use ConTeXt :)
perhaps  metatex ?

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luigi