> I like the Luatex code of Luigi. Though it is longer than what Wolfgang
> suggested (and in this case, I am using Wolfgang's solution now that I know
> about it), the luatex code seems to be the kind of programming that I am more
> comfortable with. In fact, in Latex when I was trying to achieve this, I used
> the python.sty package to code this in Python.
The optimal  solution is that one of Wolfgang that uses \expanded .
The others are less than optimal.

> To be able to do this using Lua (Luatex), do I need to learn the Lua 
> programming
> language. Do I pick up any beginners book on Lua? Any recommendations based on
> experience of those who use Luatex here.
Programming in Lua ,
see www.lua.org


>
> For example, one of the lines in the code is
>
>  tprint = function(s) tex.sprint(tex.ctxcatcodes,s) end
>
> Is this Lua or LuaTex?
luatex


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