On 11/4/2020 4:53 PM, Sylvain Hubert wrote:
% Hans, sorry for having replied on the wrong channel before.
On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 09:03, Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl
<mailto:j.ha...@xs4all.nl>> wrote:
On 11/3/2020 4:05 AM, Sylvain Hubert wrote:
> > as tables like those in setuphead({somehead}, {somesettings}) are
> actual Lua tables and follow Lua, not TeX, rules
> But there are lua apis that support delayed TeX like
> `context.chapter(context.delayed'text')`.
> Whether or not the function is stored in a table should be
theoretically
> irrelevant.
> I guess there should be a switch somewhere that let the command
> recognized delayed function.
all is possible but not all is reasonable to support .. adding layer
upon layed doesn't make it more pretty
Indeed, but still it would be nice to have a complete and consistent
interface between tex and lua unless it would harm the functionality.
it would harm performance because it involves parsing all values and
also ways around cases where the title is "function" (lieral text).
anyway, chapter (section) titles go tinto a toc table and storing lua
delayed function definitions there makes not much sense
It might be helpful in cases like alternative coloring. Writing
"function() local x=1; return function() x=1-x; return ({'black',
'gray'})[x] end end"
can be way much easier for lua speakers than digging up a bunch of
documentations to figure out whether it's implemented, or how it can be
implemented in a language like TeX, or both which is worse. In such
cases, it would also be much natural to write 'before=function()..' than
'before=\ctxlua{function()...}` unless, again, the former harms the
functionality.
Really? I have no clue what that function makec clearer than tex. And
one still needs some documentation that explains what it does.
Often there often is a pretty clean way to do it with less code.
Hans
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