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 17:14:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C1ABDFF3-2170-4E48-A57E-BED1DF6067FA@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E9B0024.8050902@uni-bonn.de>
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.
Hans van der Meer
On 16 okt. 2011, at 18:02, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On 10/16/11 5:35 PM, Meer, H. van der wrote:
>> The "context --help" shows the following option:
>> --arguments=list set variables that can be consulted during a run (key/value pairs)
>>
>> It looks like something I need at the moment. There seems to be no further information on it, at least not be searching the wiki with "context arguments".
>> I have the two questions:
>>
>> (1) how is the list given?
>> context arguments=key1=value1,key2=value2
>> or
>> context arguments="key1=value1,key2=value2"
>> or otherwise
>>
>> (2) how are these values picked up inside the TeX-run for use in typesetting?
>>
>> Hans van der Meer
>
> I recently looked that up on the list archive, so here's a link:
> http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20110107.215824.8d1287ab.en.html
>
> Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-16 17:14 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 [this message]
2011-10-16 17:32 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-10-16 18:37 ` Meer, H. van der
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