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:

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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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Thanks, I was already trying to jump through the hoops of \ctxlua, but this is really simple and exactly what I needed. The offline calls to context/metapost figure production now can get all the information needed to synchronize with the main document. Hans van der Meer On 16 okt. 2011, at 19:32, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Am 16.10.2011 um 19:14 schrieb Meer, H. van der:

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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.

<file name="test.tex"> \doifdocumentargument {bodyfont} {\setupbodyfont[\getdocumentargument{bodyfont}]}

\starttext This document uses “\doifdocumentargumentelse{bodyfont}{\getdocumentargument{bodyfont}}{Latin Modern}” as bodyfont. \stoptext </file>

$ context --bodyfont=pagella test.tex

Wolfgang