[pstricks] Using pstricks with Lua - is it possible?

[Hubert Lam]

I've been wanting to investigate + ask this, so thanks Luis.

At the moment if I need to do things "programmatically" I will resort to Excel and using formulae + the "=concatenate()" (the "&" function) to get the varying parameters into pstricks/LaTeX code.

However for more complicated stuff, yes it would be nice for LuaTeX to be easily integrated with PSTricks....
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From: pstricks-bounces at tug.org [pstricks-bounces at tug.org] on behalf of Luis Sequeira [lfsequeira at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 8 March 2012 3:23 AM
To: pstricks at tug.org
Subject: [pstricks] Using pstricks with Lua - is it possible?

I have used pstricks for years. One aspect that really interests me is the generation of complex pstricks figures programatically.
(for an example, consider generating a calendar for, a given year, say, 2013; it involves drawing 365 boxes, with numbers, different colors, markings for holidays, etc. and a lot of calculations that are better done in more general programming language, rather than LaTeX)

I have generated complex pstricks code like that, containing hundreds of commands, automatically (via C++ programming) - that involves writing a C++ program that writes down a tex file, and then running this through LaTeX

I was hoping to use Lua scripting to be able to automatically generate pstricks code, right from inside LaTeX, thus making this process self-contained.

But this looks like it may not be possible:

 - running lualatex with pstricks code in the LaTeX file only appears to be possible through the auto-pst-pdf package;
 - and that in turn spawns separate latex runs for all the pstricks stuff, where the lua scripting is *not* interpreted.

Is there some way to do this? Any suggestions? I am able to "script" regular LaTeX commands in lualatex, but I'm stumped because of the postscript nature of pstricks via the "pdflatex" nature of lualatex.

TIA

Luis Sequeira


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