[Dev-luatex] A few idle questions...

[Jonathan Sauer]

Hello, 

> Are there any practical experiences with Coco in LuaTeX already?

Even though I would not call them "practical":

I once used coroutines in the file reading callback to convert a
text file to TeX using coroutine.yield to return each converted
line of text as well as a short preamble and a postamble. I posted
the example to the LuaTeX wiki:

<http://luatex.bluwiki.com/go/Typeset_non-TeX_files_by_converting_them_u
sing_Lua_code>

It works like a charm (even though the example is not very useful).

I was also thinking of implementing a LaTeX environment using a
coroutine, so that there is only a single function that yields after
\begin and is resumed by \end. That way, the \end code can access
local variables of \begin.

Example:

\directlua0{
function env()
	% \begin:
	local answer = 42
	tex.sprint("Beginning the environment")
	coroutine.yield()
	% \end:
	tex.sprint("Ending the environment with ", tostring(answer))
end
}

\def\env{%
	\directlua0{currEnv = env()}%
}
\def\endenv{%
	\directlua0{coroutine.resume(currEnv) currEnv = nil}%
}


\begin{env}
...
\end{env}


This results in (or at least should result in):

Beginning the environment ... Ending the environment with 42


> All the best,
> David

Jonathan