Hi, On Aug 7, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 7-8-2012 09:29, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> Hi Manuel, Everybody, >> >> I am just getting into LuaLaTeX. >> >> I needed to do some work with MetaPost. >> >> While working I came across a kudo. That is once inside the mblibcode >> environment one can not call Lua. THIS I consider a missing feature and >> a VERY important one. > > Some (simple) support for lua calls is on the (long term) agenda but not > before the current mplib extensions project is done (i.e. the decimal > calculation plugins). > > Calling lua in itself is not so much an issue; after all one can just do a > \directlua inside a blob of mp passed to mplib (I do that all the time). I was under the impression that this was all that the proposed patch does. Luamplib did not allow any (tex nor lua) escapes within the block, if I understand correctly. Best wishes, Taco _______________________________________________ dev-luatex mailing list dev-luatex@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-luatex
