Defining new commands from 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





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  • LuaTeX is about combining Lua and TeX: if you look at ConTeXt, it is still a macro system using Lua _where it adds functionality
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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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  • LuaTeX is about combining Lua and TeX: if you look at ConTeXt, it is still a macro system using Lua _where it adds functionality
    – Joseph Wright♦
    6 mins ago












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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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  • LuaTeX is about combining Lua and TeX: if you look at ConTeXt, it is still a macro system using Lua _where it adds functionality
    – Joseph Wright♦
    6 mins ago
















  • LuaTeX is about combining Lua and TeX: if you look at ConTeXt, it is still a macro system using Lua _where it adds functionality
    – Joseph Wright♦
    6 mins ago















LuaTeX is about combining Lua and TeX: if you look at ConTeXt, it is still a macro system using Lua _where it adds functionality
– Joseph Wright♦
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LuaTeX is about combining Lua and TeX: if you look at ConTeXt, it is still a macro system using Lua _where it adds functionality
– Joseph Wright♦
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documentclassarticle
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 directluatoken.set_macro("hello","goodbye") 
 hello
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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)
    – raiksey
    1 hour ago













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


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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)
    – raiksey
    1 hour 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
    1 hour 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
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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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