Re: [NTG-context] Passing variables on invocation- and reading them in ConTEXt

11 Sep 2012

      On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Ian Lawrence  wrote:
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I'll try to add something to the wiki....the link below is fine if you know it's there, and that this is what you want. But the search function ("arguments" and variants thereof did not find it for me).
Probably in part because the word 'argument' is also used for
arguments passed to ConTeXt commands, and not just for arguments
passed to the context script on compilation. I've created a "were you
looking for...?" page at [[Command-line arguments]] --- that seems to
me the most obvious search term, so that page is now the first result
for that search. If there are any other synonyms you used when
searching that, you think, should point at [[Command-line arguments]]:
redirects are obvious improvements.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Ian Lawrence  wrote:
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Thanks to all. After about 30 mins exploring, it all came together.
I'll try to add something to the wiki....the link below is fine if you know it's there, and that this is what you want. But the search function ("arguments" and variants thereof did not find it for me).
The best match for what I was sure would be there, is \env{}. I still have no idea how it's (semantically) related to --arguments...unless its all Dutch...
Kind regards
Ian
On 10 Sep 2012, at 14:02, Sietse Brouwer  wrote:
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Documented at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/getdocumentargument,
in the category Command/Internals.
--Sietse
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Marco Patzer  wrote:
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2012-09-10: Peter Münster 
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Then you have to be sure, that --number and --time will never be special
parameters for context.
Indeed.
...
Alternatives:
"--MarcoPatzerNumber=8 --MarcoPatzerTime=full-time"
Or:
% context --arguments=number=8,time=full-time test.tex
This seems the better alternative, since that's what the option was
made for.
Marco
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