Re: Passing and retrieveing a variable

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 7-1-2011 9:32, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:

> - Modes are accessible by tex.modes[<a-mode>].

indeed

> - - tex.modes are 'false' by default. I.e. they are not 'nil' but
> 'false', even if not specified on the command line. (tex.mode.__newindex
> predefined to this purpose?)

indeed

> - There is no table of arguments or variables being passed by
> --arguments="ARG=arg" or by --variable="VAR=var" from the command line.

indeed (--arguments is an old mechanism and mkii compatible)

> - All arguments passed to the command line are accessible by
> document.arguments. Unfortunately, when repeating an arg, only the last
> is accessible, e.g.
>
> context.exe t.mkiv --arguments="ARG1=arg1" --arguments="ARG2=arg2"

indeed, so one can easily overload

> will cause that only (string) "ARG2=arg2" will be in
> document.arguments.arguments.

as mentioned by someone already, use "a=1,b=2,c=3"

> - - That means also that not splitting to key-value pair is not
> performed by default (document.arguments.arguments is still "ARG2=arg2",
> no splitting to document.arguments.arguments.ARG2 to be "arg2" is not
> done).

indeed, although they are split and assigned at the tex end

> - Not only predefined options/switches, but all args passed by command
> line are accessible by document.arguments. I.e. it's possible to call
>
> context.exe t.mkiv --myvar=MYVAR

right, but make sure to use a prefix so that there is no confusion 
(myvarone myvartwo etc)

> and later it's possible to get "MYVAR" from document.arguments.myvar.
>
> Let's check the call:
>
> context.exe t.mkiv --arguments=AAA=aaa --mode=MMM --arguments=BBB=bbb
> --myvar=MYVAR

Hans


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