Defining new commands from Lua

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Latex provides several commands relating to creating new commands such as newcommand. If I want to define new commands from a Lua script one way is use tex.print to write this directly into the document.



It this really the best way though? The whole point of LuaTeX is to avoid programming with Tex macros, yet this approaches involves doing exactly that. How can I directly access, edit and create commands directly from Lua?



script.lua



tex.print("\newcommand\helloHello world")


document.tex



documentclassarticle
begindocument
 directlua require("script") 
 hello
enddocument





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    Latex provides several commands relating to creating new commands such as newcommand. If I want to define new commands from a Lua script one way is use tex.print to write this directly into the document.



    It this really the best way though? The whole point of LuaTeX is to avoid programming with Tex macros, yet this approaches involves doing exactly that. How can I directly access, edit and create commands directly from Lua?



    script.lua



    tex.print("\newcommand\helloHello world")


    document.tex



    documentclassarticle
    begindocument
     directlua require("script") 
     hello
    enddocument





    luatex







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      Latex provides several commands relating to creating new commands such as newcommand. If I want to define new commands from a Lua script one way is use tex.print to write this directly into the document.



      It this really the best way though? The whole point of LuaTeX is to avoid programming with Tex macros, yet this approaches involves doing exactly that. How can I directly access, edit and create commands directly from Lua?



      script.lua



      tex.print("\newcommand\helloHello world")


      document.tex



      documentclassarticle
      begindocument
       directlua require("script") 
       hello
      enddocument





      luatex







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      Latex provides several commands relating to creating new commands such as newcommand. If I want to define new commands from a Lua script one way is use tex.print to write this directly into the document.



      It this really the best way though? The whole point of LuaTeX is to avoid programming with Tex macros, yet this approaches involves doing exactly that. How can I directly access, edit and create commands directly from Lua?



      script.lua



      tex.print("\newcommand\helloHello world")


      document.tex



      documentclassarticle
      begindocument
       directlua require("script") 
       hello
      enddocument





      luatex




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          documentclassarticle
          begindocument
           directluatoken.set_macro("hello","goodbye") 
           hello
          enddocument


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          • Accepted, thank you. Do you know of any good packages/classes on CTAN I could look at that are implemented in Lua and do this sort of thing? (To try to understand the common patterns a bit better. I'm looking at building a document class)
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          documentclassarticle
          begindocument
           directluatoken.set_macro("hello","goodbye") 
           hello
          enddocument


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          • Accepted, thank you. Do you know of any good packages/classes on CTAN I could look at that are implemented in Lua and do this sort of thing? (To try to understand the common patterns a bit better. I'm looking at building a document class)
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          documentclassarticle
          begindocument
           directluatoken.set_macro("hello","goodbye") 
           hello
          enddocument


          enter image description here






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          • Accepted, thank you. Do you know of any good packages/classes on CTAN I could look at that are implemented in Lua and do this sort of thing? (To try to understand the common patterns a bit better. I'm looking at building a document class)
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          documentclassarticle
          begindocument
           directluatoken.set_macro("hello","goodbye") 
           hello
          enddocument


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          documentclassarticle
          begindocument
           directluatoken.set_macro("hello","goodbye") 
           hello
          enddocument


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          • Accepted, thank you. Do you know of any good packages/classes on CTAN I could look at that are implemented in Lua and do this sort of thing? (To try to understand the common patterns a bit better. I'm looking at building a document class)
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          • Accepted, thank you. Do you know of any good packages/classes on CTAN I could look at that are implemented in Lua and do this sort of thing? (To try to understand the common patterns a bit better. I'm looking at building a document class)
            – raiksey
            30 mins ago
















          Accepted, thank you. Do you know of any good packages/classes on CTAN I could look at that are implemented in Lua and do this sort of thing? (To try to understand the common patterns a bit better. I'm looking at building a document class)
          – raiksey
          30 mins ago





          Accepted, thank you. Do you know of any good packages/classes on CTAN I could look at that are implemented in Lua and do this sort of thing? (To try to understand the common patterns a bit better. I'm looking at building a document class)
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