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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Iterate through a directory
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 18:30:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <189e2309-5429-0754-f0f9-5e31f4877dad@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24117c14-e8b0-3bbf-6122-342303400e0c@gmail.com>

On 7/4/2016 5:52 PM, Keith McKay wrote:
> Colleagues
>
> I'm preparing a booklet of figures which are stored in a directory,
> however their is no structure in their naming.  I could go through them
> all and rename them along the lines of Pict1.jpg, Pict2.jpg etc and
> \dostepwiserecurse as in the example below
>
>
> \setupexternalfigures [directory={/a/directory}]
> \starttext
> \dostepwiserecurse{1}{10}{1}
> {
> \externalfigure[Pict\recurselevel.jpg]
> }
>  \stoptext
>
> However, I was wondering if was possible to iterate through the
> directory using a wildcard and have something like
>
> \externalfigure[*.jpg}
>
> to make it generic, or would I have to use lua.

\startluacode

for _, name in ipairs(dir.glob("*.jpg")) do
     context.externalfigure { name }
end

\stopluacode

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-04 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-04 15:52 Keith McKay
2016-07-04 16:30 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2016-07-04 18:26   ` Keith McKay

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