From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \bufferprefix in MKIV
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:55:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C6542E12-D02E-44D4-858C-0E8CD8AB2A8A@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1101271401440.16902@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
Am 2011-01-27 um 20:08 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
> On a unrelated note, I have been thinking if I can extend the filter
> module to take care of features provided by lilypond and gnuplot
> modules. IIUC, in both these modules, the input is transformed
> before being written to an output file, then an external filter is
> run and the output is read back again. If we restrict ourselves to
> MkIV, then the transforming the input can be done in a lua function;
> the filter module already takes care of the rest of the book-keeping.
>
> Do you think that it makes sense to have such a feature? Then you
> could just define the gnuplot module as:
>
> \usemodule[filter]
>
> \defineexternalfilter[GNUPLOT]
> [filter={gnuplot --appropriate options},
> conitnue=yes,
> transformation=thirddata.GNUPLOT.transformation,
> ]
>
> where thirddata.GNUPLOT.transformation is a lua function that does
> all the fancy processing.
>
> What do you think?
I already replaced the LilyPond module by a filter setup, see
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LilyPond
It doesn't work completely the same, but good enough.
And since every user has different needs, the filter approach is more
flexible and thus better than a bunch of hardcoded setup options.
Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-28 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-26 16:46 Mojca Miklavec
2011-01-26 22:53 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-01-26 23:13 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-01-27 8:51 ` Hans Hagen
2011-01-27 19:08 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-01-27 20:10 ` Hans Hagen
2011-01-27 23:37 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-01-27 23:49 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-01-28 1:00 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-01-28 8:32 ` Hans Hagen
2011-01-27 23:36 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-01-28 13:55 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2011-01-28 20:18 ` Aditya Mahajan
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