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From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
Subject: Re: Setup output name from within ConTeXt document
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:46:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14b1db02-c6d1-9d57-e185-8930d4536799@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7cdeda2a-5670-f1a2-48f4-40efe4209d9e@gmx.es>

On 6/23/2021 4:57 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 6/23/21 9:26 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 6/22/2021 1:55 PM, Pascal Pascali wrote:
>>> Dear ConTeXt community,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to set the file name of the output from within the document?
>> [...]
>> \startluacode
>> luatex.wrapup(
>>       function()
>>           os.remove("new.pdf")
>>           os.rename("old.pdf","new.pdf")
>>       end
>> )
>> \stopluacode
> 
> Many thanks for your reply, Hans.
> 
> Just a question, which is the gain of wrapping os.rename() in a function?
I'm not sure how you would do it differently. If you would not wrap it, 
it would be done immediately and that's not what you want (and the pdf 
file might already be open). Think of def vs edef ... When a function is 
called its actions are done immediately.

Hans


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      reply	other threads:[~2021-06-23 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-22 11:55 Pascal Pascali
2021-06-22 20:00 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2021-06-23  7:26 ` Hans Hagen
2021-06-23 14:57   ` Pablo Rodriguez
2021-06-23 18:46     ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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