Re: [NTG-context] \setvariables and database module

On 30 Jan 2018, at 17:37, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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[…] Is there a way to make the \defineseparatedlist command to be more tolerant for the filename?

No but you can remove the space with Lua.

\externalfigure[\cldcontext{string.collapsespaces("\getvariable{talk}{picture}")}]

Thanks again! That does it. However, it seems strange that the \externalfigure command does not accept a space in front of the file name nor after the file extension, while \input is very tolerant in that respect. Compare \input knuth.tex \input knuth.tex \input{knuth.tex} which are all accepted, while when there is a space after the extension, \startplacefigure[number=no] \externalfigure[hacker.jpg ] \stopplacefigure or a space before the filename \startplacefigure[number=no] \externalfigure[ hacker.jpg] \stopplacefigure then ConTeXt does not recognize the file… Maybe Hans has a reason to explain this behavior, but it is not clear to me. Best regards: OK