CTAN updates: new package luacode & update of luatextra

[CTAN Announcements]

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> wrote:

> I just uploaded to the UK node an updated version of luatextra:
> 
> > 2010/10/08 v0.99
> >     * delegate definition of {luacode} and \luadirect to package luacode
> >     * raise an error rather than a warning when not running LuaTeX
> >     * load fixltx2e under LaTeX

thanks for the update; i've installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.

Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/luatextra.html
or browse the package's directory at
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luatextra/

The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.

> and a new LLPL'ed package that grew out of luatextra: luacode.
> 
> > Executing Lua code from within TeX with \directlua can sometimes be
> > tricky: there is no easy way to use the percent character, counting
> > backslashes may be hard, and Lua comments don't work the way you expect.
> > This package provides the \luaexec command and the luacode(*)
> > environments to help with these problems.
> > 
> > For an introduction to the most important gotchas of \directlua, see
> > lualatex-doc.pdf. Before you start using the tools in this package, let me
> > insist that the most robust way to manage a non-trivial piece of Lua code is
> > to use an external file and source it from Lua, as explained in the cited
> > document.
> > 
> > 2010/11/08 v1.0
> >     * initial version

i've installed this new package and committed an entry to the catalogue
repository for it.

Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/luacode.html
or browse the package's directory at
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/latex/luacode/

The catalogue will not appear on the web until some time overnight
tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team