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

On 15 Apr 2020, at 13:54, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Gerben Wierda schrieb am 15.04.2020 um 12:19:

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On 14 Apr 2020, at 11:52, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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On 14 Apr 2020, at 11:25, Gerben Wierda wrote:

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'). When processing XML, I normally use

context —environment=whatever.tex file.xml

with whatever.tex being a mix of tex and lua to setup and process the XML directly, perhaps including other XML files as needed. But this means that the whatever.tex file needs to exist beforehand and the result is whatever.pdf

I want the actual PDF to be produced have a name that comes from the XML I am processing and thus the whatever.tex file be created by lua. There is no whatever.tex file before I run the command.

Pre-command: XML: contains file name “foo” there is no .tex file

Command: produces foo.tex (gets the name from the XML) and “foo.pdf"

The TeX file in Tacos example contains the xmlsetup entries which are used to map the XML tags to ConTeXt commands and environment, the resulting PDF file has the same name as the XML file.

That is different from the resulting PDF file has the name of an entry/field in the XML file. So, what I am looking for is: command foo.xml which results in bar.pdf where ‘bar’ is text in foo.xml G

Wolfgang