From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: file to buffer
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 21:17:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3c182f1b-0d54-bab2-1412-ea5bf99a8f8b@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <645bdc59-a10e-9803-f144-8a89df82809b@gmail.com>
On 8/17/2021 8:44 PM, Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context wrote:
> Hans van der Meer via ntg-context schrieb am 17.08.2021 um 15:15:
>> Is it possible to retrieve the contents of a file directly into a
>> buffer? On the Wiki I could not find such a command. That is,
>> equivalent to something like:
>> \startbuffer[from file]
>> contents of the file
>> \stopbuffer
>
> Yes and no. The \samplefile command used to read file for example
> stores the content of a file in a buffer to avoid rereading the file each
> time the content is output but there is no way to suppress the output
> neither to change the name of the buffer.
>
> \starttext
>
> \startnointerference
> \samplefile{knuth}
> \stopnointerference
>
> \typebuffer[knuth]
>
> \getbuffer[knuth]
>
> \stoptext
\starttext
\ctxlua{buffers.assign(
"hvdm-is-not-afraid-of-some-lua",
io.loaddata(resolvers.findfile("tufte.tex"))
)}
\typebuffer[hvdm-is-not-afraid-of-some-lua]
\stoptext
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-17 13:15 Hans van der Meer via ntg-context
2021-08-17 18:44 ` Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context
2021-08-17 19:17 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
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