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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: run a ruby script and use the standard output ???
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:18:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <451B936D.9070306@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <451B7D99.20902@wxs.nl>



Hans Hagen wrote:
> piping: the latest versions of pdftex support this (i\ve forgotten the syntax, but taco who wrote the patch may remember)

piping syntax:

   \input "|ruby ./myscript.rb \vartest XXXXXXXXX"

the magic trick is the | symbol. With your current tex:

   \writ18{ruby ./myscript.rb \vartest XXXXXXXXX > whatever.tex}
   \input whatever % or something using \openin ...


Taco

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-28  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-27 21:08 Renaud AUBIN
2006-09-28  7:45 ` Hans Hagen
2006-09-28  9:18   ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2006-09-29 15:34     ` Renaud AUBIN
2006-09-29 15:45       ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-09-29 18:24         ` Renaud AUBIN
2006-09-29 18:54           ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-09-29 19:18             ` Renaud AUBIN
2006-09-29 19:45             ` Renaud AUBIN
2006-09-30  6:47               ` Taco Hoekwater

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