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

[Hans Hagen]

On 4/14/2020 11:25 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> 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
> 
>> On 14 Apr 2020, at 09:16, Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> 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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