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From: "Meer, H. van der" <H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: arguments on context call
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:37:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9D886168-004F-4C49-ABB3-0E1A634DAB4A@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31143A87-E6C2-44F1-BD14-6808F68F8E52@googlemail.com>

Thanks,
I was already trying to jump through the hoops of \ctxlua, but this is really simple and exactly what I needed. The offline calls to context/metapost figure production now can get all the information needed to synchronize with the main document.
Hans van der Meer

On 16 okt. 2011, at 19:32, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> 
> Am 16.10.2011 um 19:14 schrieb Meer, H. van der:
> 
>> Thanks, but I am afraid I do not understand the mechanism well enough.
>> I did the follwoing call in the shell:
>> context --fontchoice="my font choice" test
>> 
>> And in the test.tex file:
>> variable mykey = <\getvariable{documents.arguments}{fontchoice}>\crlf
>> 
>> But that clearly didn't work.
> 
> <file name="test.tex">
> \doifdocumentargument {bodyfont} {\setupbodyfont[\getdocumentargument{bodyfont}]}
> 
> \starttext
> This document uses “\doifdocumentargumentelse{bodyfont}{\getdocumentargument{bodyfont}}{Latin Modern}” as bodyfont.
> \stoptext
> </file>
> 
> $ context --bodyfont=pagella test.tex
> 
> Wolfgang
> 

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-16 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-16 15:35 Meer, H. van der
2011-10-16 16:02 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2011-10-16 17:14   ` Meer, H. van der
2011-10-16 17:32     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-10-16 18:37       ` Meer, H. van der [this message]

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