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

14 Apr 2020


      On 4/14/2020 11:25 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
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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
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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.
\doifdocumentargument {whatever} {
     ... \getdocumentargument{whatever} ...
}
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