Thanks, but I am afraid I do not understand the mechanism well enough. I did the follwoing call in the shell: context --fontchoice="my font choice" test And in the test.tex file: variable mykey = <\getvariable{documents.arguments}{fontchoice}>\crlf But that clearly didn't work. Hans van der Meer On 16 okt. 2011, at 18:02, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On 10/16/11 5:35 PM, Meer, H. van der wrote:
The "context --help" shows the following option: --arguments=list set variables that can be consulted during a run (key/value pairs)
It looks like something I need at the moment. There seems to be no further information on it, at least not be searching the wiki with "context arguments". I have the two questions:
(1) how is the list given? context arguments=key1=value1,key2=value2 or context arguments="key1=value1,key2=value2" or otherwise
(2) how are these values picked up inside the TeX-run for use in typesetting?
Hans van der Meer
I recently looked that up on the list archive, so here's a link: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20110107.215824.8d1287ab.en.html
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