[NTG-context] Re: command line arguments

[Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>]

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Hello Hraban,

I puzzled a while. To me the —arguments= option does not work. I saw then on the Wiki, that one can also add documentarguments as —schema=2UP —numberofpages=16.

I further changed to \startdocument … \stopdocument.

Please look at the attached file

Willi

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% context --autopdf=auto --schema=2\*4\*2 --numberofpages=16
 %\def\Schema{\doifelsedocumentargument{schema}{\getdocumentargument{schema}}{1*8}}
%\def\Pages{\doifelsedocumentargument{numberofpages}{\getdocumentargument{numberofpages}}{16}}

\setuppapersize[A9,landscape][A7,landscape]

\setupbodyfont[ss,10pt]

\setuplayout[margin=0pt, width=fit, header=2.8ex, footer=2.8ex]
\setupalign[middle,hilo]
\setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided,location=footer]
\setupheadertexts[\CONTEXT\ imposition test]

\showframe
\setupbackgrounds [text][text][background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgray]

% Where the block of pages is placed on the sheet
% (relevant if there is space left over.)
\setuplayout [location=middle,marking=on]

\startbuffer[Fakepage]
    \strut
    \blank
    \bold{[\documentvariable{Schema}]}
    \vfill
    This is page \recurselevel
    \vfill
\stopbuffer


\startdocument
   [Schema={\getdocumentargument{schema}}, %{1*8},
	  Nofpages=\doifelsedocumentargument%
	   {numberofpages}{\getdocumentargument{numberofpages}}{1}]
	
\setuparranging[\documentvariable{Schema}]	
	
	% Contents of Documentvariable "Schema" = \documentvariable{Schema}
	
  \dorecurse{\documentvariable{Nofpages}}{\getbuffer[Fakepage]\page}
\stopdocument

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> On 19 Mar 2024, at 21:41, Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote:
> 
> Following up on the other imposition question, I'm trying to make an example file that shows an imposition schema according to command line arguments.
> 
> This way it works for the number of pages, as used in \dorecurse{\Pages}{…}, but not for the imposition schema. Typesetting \Schema looks right, but \setuparranging doesn’t work. Where's my error?
> 
> \def\Schema{\doifelsedocumentargument{schema}{\getdocumentargument{schema}}{1*8}}
> \def\Pages{\doifelsedocumentargument{numberofpages}{\getdocumentargument{numberofpages}}{16}}
> 
> \setuparranging[\Schema]
> 
> 
> Find the full example attached, I call it like
> 
> context --autopdf=auto --arrange impositiontest.tex --schema=TRYPTICHON --numberofpages=32
> 
> Hraban
> 
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