Thanks Hans I'll give it a try.

Best Wishes

Keith

On 7/4/2016 5:52 PM, Keith McKay wrote:

Colleagues

I'm preparing a booklet of figures which are stored in a directory,
however their is no structure in their naming.  I could go through them
all and rename them along the lines of Pict1.jpg, Pict2.jpg etc and
\dostepwiserecurse as in the example below


\setupexternalfigures [directory={/a/directory}]
\starttext
\dostepwiserecurse{1}{10}{1}
{
\externalfigure[Pict\recurselevel.jpg]
}
 \stoptext

However, I was wondering if was possible to iterate through the
directory using a wildcard and have something like

\externalfigure[*.jpg}

to make it generic, or would I have to use lua.

\startluacode

for _, name in ipairs(dir.glob("*.jpg")) do
    context.externalfigure { name }
end

\stopluacode

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