Re: [Dev-luatex] The explanation of \directlua in the manual

2011-10-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Am 20.10.2011 um 11:23 schrieb Javier Múgica de Rivera: >>> Note that the expansion of \directlua is a sequence of characters, not >>> of tokens, contrary to all TeX commands. So formally speaking its >>> expansion is null, but places material on a pseudo-file to be >>> immediately read by TeX, a

[Dev-luatex] The explanation of \directlua in the manual

2011-10-20 Thread Javier Múgica de Rivera
>> Note that the expansion of \directlua is a sequence of characters, not >> of tokens, contrary to all TeX commands. So formally speaking its >> expansion is null, but places material on a pseudo-file to be >> immediately read by TeX, as etex's \scantokens. >> >> For a description of print functio

Re: [Dev-luatex] The explanation of \directlua in the manual

2011-10-11 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 10/11/2011 01:53 PM, Javier Múgica de Rivera wrote: When I read this from the manual a long time ago: The \directlua command is expandable: the results of the LUA code become effective immediately. I could not make sense of it, and actually cannot up to day. What are "the results of the LUA

[Dev-luatex] The explanation of \directlua in the manual

2011-10-11 Thread Javier Múgica de Rivera
When I read this from the manual a long time ago: The \directlua command is expandable: the results of the LUA code become effective immediately. I could not make sense of it, and actually cannot up to day. What are "the results of the LUA code"? What does "become effective" mean? Now I now the a