[XeTeX] Xetex equiv to luatex's \directlua{}

2018-03-23 Thread maxwell
I'm just finishing up a project that involved typesetting text in several languages, while outputting an XML file that defined in X/Y coordinates the position and size of the bounding box surrounding each line of text in the PDF. I used Luatex, because that made it possible to call Lua from Lu

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex equiv to luatex's \directlua{}

2018-03-23 Thread David Carlisle
there are several ways to get the box output in classic tex (or xetex) although perhaps the easiest (and safest in terms of not accidentally affecting the typeset positions) is to use \showoutput so all boxes are (somewhat verbosely) logged in the log file, and then parse that with perl or python

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex equiv to luatex's \directlua{}

2018-03-23 Thread maxwell
On 2018-03-23 16:44, David Carlisle wrote: there are several ways to get the box output in classic tex (or xetex) although perhaps the easiest (and safest in terms of not accidentally affecting the typeset positions) is to use \showoutput so all boxes are (somewhat verbosely) logged in the log f

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex equiv to luatex's \directlua{}

2018-03-23 Thread David Carlisle
The format is described in the TeXBook but in short .\hbox(7.71974+2.25569)x360.0, is a box of height 7.71974pt, depth 2.25569 and width 360.0pt nested one level inside some other box \hbox(0.0+0.0)x17.0 is a box of height and depth 0 and width 17pt (it will be the indentation box) that is

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-k] e-TeX \lastnodetype initialization problem

2018-03-23 Thread Akira Kakuto
Hi Hironobu, A patch for * etexdir/tex.ech * pdftexdir/pdftex.ch * xetexdir/xetex.ch is attached. Many thanks. Applied in r47096. Best, Akira -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex