Define tex macro on the context command line

Define tex macro on the context command line

[John Devereux]

Hi,

Is it possible to define a tex macro on the context command line (MkII)?

For example:

  texexec manual.tex --define Title "X99 Operators Manual"

so that 

  \Title

would expand to the appropriate text?

(I know about modes I think)

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John Devereux
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Re: Define tex macro on the context command line

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, John Devereux wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to define a tex macro on the context command line (MkII)?
>
> For example:
>
>  texexec manual.tex --define Title "X99 Operators Manual"
>
> so that
>
>  \Title
>
> would expand to the appropriate text?

You can do that with pdftex command,

pdftex -progname=context -fmt=cont-en -translate-file=natural.tcx 
--output-format=pdf --8bit --jobname=filename
  "\\def\\Title{whatever} \\input filename"

but you loose all the goodies of texexec (multiple runs, running bibtex, 
sorting index, etc.)

Alternatively, it is possible to read from console during a tex run

\starttext
\immediate\write16{What is the title?}
\read16 to \Title
Title is \Title
\stoptext


Aditya
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Re: Define tex macro on the context command line

[Hans Hagen]

Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, John Devereux wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to define a tex macro on the context command line (MkII)?
>>
>> For example:
>>
>>  texexec manual.tex --define Title "X99 Operators Manual"
>>
>> so that
>>
>>  \Title
>>
>> would expand to the appropriate text?
> 
> You can do that with pdftex command,
> 
> pdftex -progname=context -fmt=cont-en -translate-file=natural.tcx 
> --output-format=pdf --8bit --jobname=filename
>  "\\def\\Title{whatever} \\input filename"
> 
> but you loose all the goodies of texexec (multiple runs, running bibtex, 
> sorting index, etc.)
> 
> Alternatively, it is possible to read from console during a tex run
> 
> \starttext
> \immediate\write16{What is the title?}
> \read16 to \Title
> Title is \Title
> \stoptext


\starttext

test: \env{whatever}

\stoptext

context --arguments="whatever=Test" ...


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Re: Define tex macro on the context command line

[Peter Münster]

On Wed, Nov 11 2009, John Devereux wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to define a tex macro on the context command line (MkII)?

Hello,

I don't know, if there is something similar in MKII, but with MKIV, the
following works very nicely:

file.tex:

\starttext
Value of Title: “\getvariable{environment}{Title}”
\stoptext

Command line:

context "--arguments=Title=X99 Operators Manual" file

Cheers, Peter

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