From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: reading from standard input
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:44:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD1F3B9.7000903@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD1EE44.2030302@stdin.fr>
On 8-6-2012 14:21, <stdin> | Alexandre Leray wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there was a way to make context read from stdin
> instead of reading from a file?
>
> cat /path/to/src.tex | context --result=/path/to/result.pdf
>
> I'd like to do something like this in python:
>
> def generate_pdf(self):
>
> src = """
> \starttext
> \section[éléments-de-transmission]{Éléments de transmission}
>
> Un module dans lequel une communauté temporaire d'étudiants et
> d'enseignants s'exerce à mettre en situation des réflexions et des
> moments de transmission en interrogeant sans cesse la question de
> l'enseignement. La configuration des enseignants est variable selon
> les situations. Les situations seront mises en place en semaine
> A et B
> selon l'emploi du temps. Chaque nouvelle situation invente sa
> méthode.
> \stoptext
> """
> cmd = 'context --result=/tmp/result.pdf'
> p1 = subprocess.Popen(cmd.split(" "), stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
> stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
> (stdout, stderr) = p1.communicate(stdin=src)
>
you can use the standard tex input readers (\read) as well as io.read
when you're in lua
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-08 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-08 12:21 <stdin> | Alexandre Leray
2012-06-08 12:44 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-06-08 13:31 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-06-08 14:32 ` <stdin> | Alexandre Leray
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