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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