On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Graham Douglas <graham.doug...@readytext.co.uk> wrote: > Dear All > > In a the recent Luatex 0.46.0 announcement > > http://tug.org/pipermail/luatex/2009-November/001118.html > > experimental support for loading external libraries was reported. > > I am running Windows Vista with > > ConTeXt ver: 2010.03.12 19:49 MKIV fmt: 2010.3.16 int: english/english > with LuaTeX, Version beta-0.51.0-2010031309 (rev 3479) > > I have also downloaded Lua 5.1 from http://luaforwindows.luaforge.net/ > and so have Lua5.1.dll installed. > > This distribution has a number of interesting extenal libraries > (ie DLLs) that I would like to try out with LuaTeX. If I can make progress I > would be happy to document and write-up my experiments for posting on the > Wiki in case they may be of interest to others. I should say that my coding > skills are somewhat rusty as I've been away from programming/TeX for a few > years... so do please excuse my "simplistic" > questions :-) > > So, I was wondering if anyone has a minimal example they would be > kind enough to share, or can give me a few pointers/guidelines so that I can > start experimenting. In particular, I'm interested to call external > libraries and inject the output from an external library into TeX for > typesetting. For example, is it possible to load a library once, keep > it loaded and access the library functions from different commands during > the TeX run? > > In outline... > > --- run some code to load the library (initialisation) > --- keeping the library available > --- some commands\definitions to accss library functions > eg \calltolibrary{....) > > --- make callsto library and pass the output into TeX for > typesetting > > I would be very grateful for any guidance/help that can be offered.
http://www.ntg.nl/EuroTeX2009/slides/luigi-slides.pdf -- luigi ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
