[luatex] Option handling in LuaLaTeX package
Ulrike Fischer
luatex at nililand.de
Wed Jun 5 00:25:52 CEST 2019
Am Tue, 4 Jun 2019 16:28:47 +0200 schrieb Urs Liska:
>>> To reiterate the question: Is this approach to handling options
>>> something that already exists (so we shouldn't have bothered with the
>>> implementation in the first place)? If not am I right with the
>>> assumption that it would be a good idea to make it available as a
>>> generic package, say `luaoptions`?
>> I only looked very briefly at the description so perhaps missed a
>> point. key-val-syntax is certainly used a lot by various packages,
>> but normally packages are written so that they can be used with more
>> than one engine, so a key-val-system that requires luatex as engine
>> is probably useful only for a small number of packages.
>
>
> This is of course true but probably looks at the issue from the wrong
> direction.
>
> Yes, we do have a solution that depends on Lua. But this is because our
> whole package totally relies on Lua to perform its work. Making parts of
> our machinery available outside of the context of our package should
> make sense even if it is limited to other luatex packages.
I didn't try to imply that the package is useless, only that there
are probably not so many packages who can use it. From all the
packages I created, maintain or I'm somehow involved currently only
one is pure luatex (luaotfload) and this has no option handling.
> The aspect that seems to make the option handling in the package useful
> is that it's not simply an implementation of key-value package options
> but an integrated solution to handling options on the package, the
> global, and the per-item level.
Sure I understand this, and it is useful, see e.g. siunitx for an
implementation with tex macros: in siunitx you can set options as
package options, or with \sisetup, or locally in optional arguments.
--
Ulrike Fischer
https://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
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