On 10 May 2022, at 23:40, Gerben Wierda via ntg-context wrote:

Fix

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I was wondering if this can be simplified, e.g. by setting language on the command line instead, enable a mode derived from a language set on the command line,

The language settings trigger a system mode, see https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modes#System_modes Best wishes, Taco — Taco Hoekwater E: taco@bittext.nl genderfluid (all pronouns)

On 5/11/22 09:40, Gerben Wierda via ntg-context wrote:

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On 11 May 2022, at 08:59, Taco Hoekwater wrote: [...] The language settings trigger a system mode, see

https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modes#System_modes

Thanks, but how do I influence this from the command line? Does it work the other way around, so with “—mode=en”? Hi Gerben,

I think this may do the trick: \doiftext{\env{ml}} {\mainlanguage[\env{ml}]} \starttext Document main language: \startmodeset [**en] {English} [**es] {Spanish} [**de] {German} [**nl] {Dutch} [**ru] {Russian} \stopmodeset% . \stoptext Of course, "--arguments=ml=nl" would be the right option to pass the language from the command line. AfaIk, there is not "--language" option from the command line. (This also makes sense to me.) Just in case it might help, Pablo

On 5/11/22 18:09, Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context wrote:

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context schrieb am 11.05.2022 um 17:57:

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AfaIk, there is not "--language" option from the command line. (This also makes sense to me.)

\doifdocumentargument {language}   {\mainlanguage[\getdocumentargument{language}]}

Many thanks for the info, Wolfgang. I see that literally anything goes: \doifdocumentargument{anything} {\mainlanguage[\getdocumentargument{anything}]} Many thanks for your help, Pablo