Re: [NTG-context] Using command line values in a TeX document; writing a script?

This helps for adding information to my processing. What I was also looking for is that I don’t have a test.tex anymore, just the XML file I am parsing and a command line action. So, I use mtxrun, give it the name of an XML. lua code (using a ’script’ somewhere?) reads the XML, extracts a name (e.g. ‘foo’) from it, creates a .tex file (e.g. ‘foo.tex’), produces a .pdf file from that .tex file (e.g. ‘foo.pdf'). G

On 14 Apr 2020, at 09:16, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Hi Gerben,

What you want is quite easy to do since you are using lua already. Try this:

% context --whatever=green test

with test.tex:

\starttext \startluacode table.print(environment.arguments) \stopluacode \stoptext

everything from the command line ends up in environment.arguments.

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