From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: TEXpage filename
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 08:44:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9C89B551-F3D9-400A-8C73-2EE08FD3EE3A@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32A90BEC-D99D-424B-9E1F-87887A13D31F@gmail.com>
Am 01.05.2013 um 23:02 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>:
>
> Am 01.05.2013 um 12:16 schrieb Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In the production of (scientific) articles for journal submissions,
>> one is often expected to supply the figures as separate files.
>>
>> One workflow can be through the use of \startTEXpage\stopTEXpage
>> followed by an external extraction of single pdf pages to separate
>> files.
>>
>> However, is it possible or would it be possible to directly output to a
>> named file, as in:
>> \startTEXpage{figure1.pdf}
>> \stopTEXpage
>> or perhaps
>> \startTEXpage [file=figure1.pdf]
>> \stopTEXpage
>> ? (I could not find an answer looking at the source.)
>>
>> One could then (optionally) reinclude the figure in a review copy of
>> the full text through the use of \externalfigure [figure1]
>
> You can put each graphic in a separate document and tell context to
> create a pdf with the \typesetfile command.
\startbuffer[extract:before]
\startTEXpage
\stopbuffer
\startbuffer[extract:after]
\stopTEXpage
\stopbuffer
\def\startextract
{\dosingleempty\dostartextract}
\def\dostartextract[#1]%
{\edef\extractfilename{#1}%
\grabbufferdata[extract:content][startextract][stopextract]}
\def\stopextract
{\doifsomething\extractfilename
{\savebuffer[list={extract:before,extract:content,extract:after},file=\extractfilename.tex,prefix=no]%
\typesetfile[\extractfilename][]}}
\starttext
\startplacefigure[title={External file}]
\startextract[extract-1]
\blackrule[width=4cm,height=4cm,color=orange]
\stopextract
\stopplacefigure
\stoptext
> Creating a new environment which does all of this itself isn’t hard
> because most of the stuff which is needed can be seen in the example
> below.
>
> % the external file
>
> \startbuffer[figure-1]
> \startTEXpage
> \blackrule[width=4cm,height=4cm,color=blue]
> \stopTEXpage
> \stopbuffer
>
> \savebuffer[list=figure-1,file=figure-1.tex,prefix=no]
>
> % process the external file at runtime
>
> \starttext
> \placefigure{External file}{\typesetfile[figure-1]}
The second argument for \typesetfile is needed to get this working:
\placefigure{External file}{\typesetfile[figure-1][]}
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-02 6:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-01 10:16 Alan BRASLAU
2013-05-01 14:16 ` Sietse Brouwer
2013-05-01 21:11 ` Alan BRASLAU
2013-05-01 21:02 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-05-02 6:44 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2013-05-04 11:50 ` Alan Bowen
2013-05-04 16:00 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-05-05 12:27 ` Alan Bowen
2013-05-05 12:39 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2013-05-08 12:00 ` Alan Bowen
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