Indeed, that was it.Your mail brings the memory back. But I am an old man, so …. :-) Thanks.

On 8 Sep 2018, at 17:40, Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

\getdocumentargument{...}

\getdocumentargumentdefault{...}{<default value>}

Wolfgang


Hans van der Meer schrieb am 08.09.18 um 15:23:

I seem to remember (from a galaxy far far away) that it was possible to pick up the parameters from the mtxrun call that sets ConTeXt typesetting in motion. For example doing 

mtxrun —mymode=something

and then in the program retrieving that something.

Will someone enlighten me?

dr. Hans van der Meer

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