On 10/6/20 5:57 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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Am 06.10.2020 um 16:18 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez : [...] REM ~ context --purgeall --arguments="PDFdocument=%1" b.tex

I’m afraid it only works if the batch file and the PDF document are on the same directory.

I guess this is related to "\" in Windows paths. Is there a way to make it work with the sample above?

Did you try with / paths? They usually work on Windows, no need for \s.

Many thanks for your reply, Hraban. I wish I could do that. I get the paths from a Windows .bat file. I drop PDF docuemnts to the .bat file, this is the reason I get the paths with backslashes. I use something like that: for %%A in (%*) do ( context --purgeall --arguments="PDFDoc={%%~A} b.tex ) But to replace backslashes with slashes, I would need something like this: for %%A in (%*) do ( context --purgeall --arguments="PDFDoc={%%%~A:\=/%} b.tex ) But that prevents the batch file from working at all. I don’t know whether there is a workaround for this. Many thanks for you help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

Hello Pablo, slight correction: ---- .bat call lua.exe -e "os.execute('echo context --purgeall --arguments=PDFdocument=' .. ([[%1]]):gsub([[\]], '/') .. ' b.tex')" ---- "echo" should be omitted, of course, or be placed just for debugging purposes. Best regards, Lukas On 2020-10-07 16:23, context@vivaldi.net wrote:

Hello Pablo,

sometimes I do something hacky like the following in similar situations (not tested now):

---- .bat call lua.exe -e "os.execute('echo context --purgeall --arguments=PDFdocument=' .. ([[%1]]):gsub([[\]], '/') .. ' b.tex')" ----

Best regards,

Lukas

On 2020-10-06 16:18, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

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Dear list,

I have a minimal sample file:

\starttext \insertpages[\env{PDFdocument}] \stoptext

I invoke it in Windows, using the following batch file:

@echo off REM ~ context --purgeall --arguments="PDFdocument=%1" b.tex

I’m afraid it only works if the batch file and the PDF document are on the same directory.

I guess this is related to "\" in Windows paths. Is there a way to make it work with the sample above?

Many thanks for your help,

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Hello Pablo, On 2020-10-07 19:10, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

On 10/7/20 4:45 PM, context@vivaldi.net wrote:

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Hello Pablo,

slight correction:

---- .bat call lua.exe -e "os.execute('echo context --purgeall --arguments=PDFdocument=' .. ([[%1]]):gsub([[\]], '/') .. ' b.tex')" ----

Many thanks for your reply, Lukas.

I found another workaround at the ConTeXt file (b.tex).

\cldcontext{string.gsub([[\env{PDFdocument}]], "\\\\", "/")}

I don’t know why I needed to add "\\\\" instead of "\\". (otherwise, I

I guess that's as Ctx translates "\\" into "\", and you need to have "\\" in Lua code. You could alse write (not tested): \cldcontext{string.gsub([[\env{PDFdocument}]], [[\\]], "/")} Best, Lukas

kept getting "C://Users//username//Desktop//document.pdf" and similar ones).

Many thanks for your help,

Pablo