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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Saving module data in tuc file
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:59:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EDB527A.9040703@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1112031857270.2243@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>

On 4-12-2011 01:20, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How does one save and read third-party data in tuc file at the lua end?
>
> I am trying to write a module t-ifchanged that defines a
> \doiffilechanged macro that provides the functionality of mtxrun
> --ifchanged without calling an external program (This is meant to be a
> support module for t-vim, where the external calls to mtxrun are too
> time consuming).

This is why we have a mechanism built in (used for graphics).

> I can successfully write additional data to the tuc file, but cannot
> figure out how to initialize the data from tuc file. (See attached
> file). Any hints are welcome.

There is:

jobfiles.run("yourfile.xxx","vim --something yourfile.xxx")

I'll adapt this to accept a function as second argument.

Hans

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-04 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-04  0:20 Aditya Mahajan
2011-12-04  1:36 ` luigi scarso
2011-12-04  2:31   ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-12-04  9:36 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-12-04 10:59 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-12-04 19:31   ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-12-04 20:40     ` Aditya Mahajan

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