On 3/20/2021 10:03 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Sat, 20 Mar 2021, Hans Hagen wrote:


I wonder if we could have an environment, say \startluatemplate ...
\stopluatemplate, which is evaluated on the fly rather than when loading a
file.

define 'evaluated on the fly'

Consider the following example:

\enablemode[A]
\starttext
\startluatemplate
   <?lua if tex.modes["A"] and not tex.modes["B"] then ?>
   \starttyping
   A and not B
   \stoptyping
   <?lua else ?>
   \starttyping
   not (A and not B)
   \stoptyping
   <?lua end ?>
\stopluatemplate
\stoptext

What I am thinking is that \startluatemplate ... \stopluatemplate grabs the 
content (like a buffer) and then processes it using the mkix conversion 
mechanism. Thus, in terms of output, it should be equivalent to:

\enablemode[A]
\starttext
\startbuffer[luatemplate]
   <?lua if tex.modes["A"] and not tex.modes["B"] then ?>
   \starttyping
   A and not B
   \stoptyping
   <?lua else ?>
   \starttyping
   not (A and not B)
   \stoptyping
   <?lua end ?>
\stopbuffer
\savebuffer[file={\jobname-luatemplate.mkix}, list={luatemplate}]
\input \jobname-luatemplate.mkix
\stoptext

but without the need to save to an external file.
this is just for the mode right? in that case we can also can provide

<?lua tex.enablemode("A") ?>

Hans


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