From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: How to store command line arguments in ConTeXt LUA Documents?
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 10:14:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E7D260.3090803@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160314214657.GA9502@nereid.neptune>
On 3/14/2016 10:46 PM, Romain Diss wrote:
>>> Is it possible to store context command line arguments into lua
>>> variables?
>>> [...]
>>> 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
> Thank you. It works very well.
>
> I did not find this table in any documentation. Did I forget something?
>
> If I want to document it, what is the best place?
> - http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/getdocumentargument
> - another place in the wiki which evokes lua environment tables...
maybe expand the lua section of the wiki
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2016-03-13 12:43 Romain Diss
2016-03-13 13:24 ` Hans Hagen
2016-03-14 21:46 ` Romain Diss
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