Re: How to preserve a TeX token list across passes (the ConTeXt way)?

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Jyrki Ruuskanen wrote:
> I made a plain TeX module for simple abbreviation and bibliography  
> handling. The problem is it currently uses a temporary file to keep  
> track of used bibs / abbreviations. Essentially it writes \addToList 
> [\usedAbbreviations]{<abbr>} and \addToList[\usedReferences]{<cite>}  
> commands to it, and this file is input on the second pass.
> 
> After finding out that ConTeXt *really is* well thought of and robust  
> I changed the functionality to use TeXutil with \writeutilitycommand.  
> Everything seems to work, the commands appear in .tui/.tuo files and  
> are executed, but the token lists are empty when execution reaches  
> the document. I couldn't figure out how to fix it as I don't yet know  
> enough about the anatomy of a ConTeXt run and the system.

Some small example files would help a lot. We have to know what
*precisely* is in the tui file.

Cheers ,Taco