From: "<stdin> | Alexandre Leray" <alexandre@stdin.fr>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: reading from standard input
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:32:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD20CE7.4080802@stdin.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1206080928290.13850@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
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Thank you,
I will try this!
Alex
On 08/06/2012 15:31, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, <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 try context --pipe --result=/tmp/result.pdf but that only runs
> the document once, so cross referencings, TOC, etc won't work
> correctly. The other options is to write to a file, and then run
> "context --purgeall --result=/tmp/result.pdf filename"; this will run
> the document appropriate number of times, and then delete the temp
> files, leaving only the .tex and the .pdf file.
>
> Aditya
>
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-08 14:32 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
2012-06-08 13:31 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-06-08 14:32 ` <stdin> | Alexandre Leray [this message]
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