Added abc.lua example to lua-filters documentation.

Also fixed docs for `pipe`.
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John MacFarlane 2017-10-03 14:20:48 -07:00
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@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ JSON to stdout and reading it from stdin.
Here is an example of a lua filter that converts strong emphasis
to small caps:
``` {.lua}
``` lua
return {
{
Strong = function (elem)
@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ return {
or equivalently,
``` {.lua}
``` lua
function Strong(elem)
return pandoc.SmallCaps(elem.c)
end
@ -163,10 +163,15 @@ those elements accessible through the filter function parameter.
## Exposed pandoc functionality
Some filters will require access to certain functions provided
by pandoc. This is currently limited to the `read` function
which allows to parse strings into pandoc documents from within
the lua filter.
Some pandoc functions have been made available in lua:
- `read` allows filters to parse strings into pandoc documents
- `pipe` runs an external command with input from and output to
strings
- `sha1` generates a SHA1 hash
- The `mediabag` module allows access to the "mediabag,"
which stores binary content such as images that may be
included in the final document.
# Examples
@ -175,7 +180,7 @@ the lua filter.
The following filter converts the string `{{helloworld}}` into
emphasized text "Hello, World".
``` {.lua}
``` lua
return {
{
Str = function (elem)
@ -195,7 +200,7 @@ This filter causes metadata defined in an external file
(`metadata-file.yaml`) to be used as default values in a
document's metadata:
``` {.lua}
``` lua
-- read metadata file into string
local metafile = io.open('metadata-file.yaml', 'r')
local content = metafile:read("*a")
@ -222,7 +227,7 @@ return {
This filter sets the date in the document's metadata to the
current date:
``` {.lua}
``` lua
function Meta(m)
m.date = os.date("%B %e, %Y")
return m
@ -234,7 +239,7 @@ end
This filter prints a table of all the URLs linked to in the
document, together with the number of links to that URL.
``` {.lua}
``` lua
links = {}
function Link (el)
@ -275,7 +280,7 @@ Passing information from a higher level (e.g., metadata) to a
lower level (e.g., inlines) is still possible by using two
filters living in the same file:
``` {.lua}
``` lua
local vars = {}
function get_vars (meta)
@ -328,6 +333,49 @@ will output:
</dl>
```
## Converting ABC code to music notation
This filter replaces code blocks with class `abc` with
images created by running their contents through `abcm2ps`
and ImageMagick's `convert`. (For more on ABC notation, see
<http://abcnotation.com>.)
Images are added to the mediabag. For output to binary
formats, pandoc will use images in the mediabag. For textual
formats, use `--extract-media` to specify a directory where
the files in the mediabag will be written, or (for HTML only)
use `--self-contained`.
``` lua
-- Pandoc filter to process code blocks with class "abc" containing
-- ABC notation into images.
--
-- * Assumes that abcm2ps and ImageMagick's convert are in the path.
-- * For textual output formats, use --extract-media=abc-images
-- * For HTML formats, you may alternatively use --self-contained
local filetypes = { html = {"png", "image/png"}
, latex = {"pdf", "application/pdf"}
}
local filetype = filetypes[FORMAT][1] or "png"
local mimetype = filetypes[FORMAT][2] or "image/png"
local function abc2eps(abc, filetype)
local eps = pandoc.pipe("abcm2ps", {"-q", "-O", "-", "-"}, abc)
local final = pandoc.pipe("convert", {"-", filetype .. ":-"}, eps)
return final
end
function CodeBlock(block)
if block.classes[1] == "abc" then
local img = abc2eps(block.text, filetype)
local fname = pandoc.sha1(img) .. "." .. filetype
pandoc.mediabag.insert(fname, mimetype, img)
return pandoc.Para{ pandoc.Image({pandoc.Str("abc tune")}, fname) }
end
end
```
# Module pandoc
Lua functions for pandoc scripts.
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[`pipe (command, args, input)`]{#mediabag-sha1}
: Runs command with arguments, passing it some input,
and returns the exit code and the output.
and returns the output.
Returns:
- Exit code from command.
- Output of command.
Usage:
local ec, output = pandoc.pipe("sed", {"-e","s/a/b/"}, "abc")
local output = pandoc.pipe("sed", {"-e","s/a/b/"}, "abc")
# Submodule mediabag