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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: How to store command line arguments in ConTeXt LUA Documents?
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 14:24:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E569FE.6020403@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160313124320.GA31152@nereid.neptune>

On 3/13/2016 1:43 PM, Romain Diss wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to store context command line arguments into lua
> variables?
>
> I found http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/getdocumentargument but it
> only prints the argument. I can not store it for further processing.
>
> What I would like to do is something like this:
>
> -- start of the example
> something = context.getcommandlineargument("ARG1") -- doesn't exist
> -- make some tests here to check if 'something' has the right syntax
> context.startdocument{title = something}
> context.input("knuth")
> context.stopdocument()
> -- end of the example
>
> Then, one has just to launch:
> $ context file.cld --ARG1="My first title"

environment.arguments


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-13 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-13 12:43 Romain Diss
2016-03-13 13:24 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2016-03-14 21:46   ` Romain Diss
2016-03-15  9:14     ` Hans Hagen

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