On 17-9-2012 23:13, Philipp Gesang wrote:
···<date: 2012-09-16, Sunday>···<from: Hans Hagen>···

On 16-9-2012 19:17, Philipp Gesang wrote:
Bug?

no, feature. job variables are just key/values and accessible at the
tex end (you store 'works too' in 'bar')

Ok, I wasn’t aware of this restriction.

if you want arbitrary data to be stores you need to used datasets,
as explained in

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definedataset

Hmm, the wiki only covers the TeX macro interface whilst I am
mainly concerned with passing stuff right from the Lua end.

 From my reading of core-dat.lua I gather that there is not really
a way to dump any Lua table (array or hash or mixed) via
datasets. Except directly writing to “tobesaved”.

And that is indeed somewhat nasty; I'll add a 'convert' key to the settings so that you can set raw data at the Lua end.

(I'll send you a Lua file for testing)

Hans


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