Re: [NTG-context] Define tex macro on the context command line

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, John Devereux wrote:

Hi,

Is it possible to define a tex macro on the context command line (MkII)?

For example:

texexec manual.tex --define Title "X99 Operators Manual"

so that

\Title

would expand to the appropriate text?

You can do that with pdftex command, pdftex -progname=context -fmt=cont-en -translate-file=natural.tcx --output-format=pdf --8bit --jobname=filename "\\def\\Title{whatever} \\input filename" but you loose all the goodies of texexec (multiple runs, running bibtex, sorting index, etc.) Alternatively, it is possible to read from console during a tex run \starttext \immediate\write16{What is the title?} \read16 to \Title Title is \Title \stoptext Aditya