From: Marco Patzer <homerow@lavabit.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Passing variables on invocation- and reading them in ConTEXt
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:12:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120910131208.00a18efe@homerow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73DCD031-6BBC-483D-9016-6BCF674C5F5A@gmail.com>
On 2012-09-10 Ian Lawrence <physics.rooted@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ian,
> I'd like to pass variables into context on invocation, just as you can do with setting modes
>
> So
>
> context --arguments="number=8", "time=full-time" --mode=trial test.tex
context --number=8 --time=full-time test.tex
> \starttext
>
> Hello world
>
> % This is \getvariables{arguments}{number} it. % this does not work - what do I need here to write out the next line?
>
> This is 8.
>
> % This is \getvariables{arguments}{time} it. % Nor does this - what do I need here to write out the next line?
>
> This is full-time.
>
> \stoptext
\starttext
This is \doifdocumentargument{number}{\getdocumentargument{number}} it.
This is \doifdocumentargument{time}{\getdocumentargument{time}} it.
\stoptext
Marco
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2012-09-10 10:53 ` Ian Lawrence
2012-09-10 11:12 ` Marco Patzer [this message]
2012-09-10 11:31 ` Peter Münster
2012-09-10 12:00 ` Marco Patzer
2012-09-10 13:02 ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-09-10 20:50 ` Ian Lawrence
2012-09-11 8:31 ` Sietse Brouwer
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