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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Passing variable values on invoking context
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:47:07 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1202151146170.3329@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4808B92C-AFE0-4AEB-9FCE-CCD4C6C67337@googlemail.com>

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On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

>
> Am 15.02.2012 um 11:17 schrieb Ian Lawrence:
>
>> A bit of help, please.
>>
>> I currently have a chunk at the start of a text file, like this
>>
>> \setvariables
>>  [Path]
>>  [Thread={Ee_01_PN},
>>
>>  .....
>>
>>   Mode=full]
>> \stopbuffer
>>
>> I invoke the file with
>>
>> context  filename.tex
>>
>> Is there a way to pass the value of the variable to context on invocation?
>>
>> So the top of the header might read:
>>
>>
>> \setvariables
>>  [Path]
>>  [Thread={Ee_01_PN},
>>
>>  .....
>>
>>   ]
>> \stopbuffer
>>
>> And the invocation:
>>
>> context  filename.tex (bit of magic) Mode=full
>>
>> If so, I could use this a few times...it's not a big deal but would
>> mean I could prepare some fixed command files, rather than a search
>> and replace for Mode=full to Mode=light through al the text files
>> called by this kind of invocation.
>
> • http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060810.215454.54ccd77e.en.html
> • http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20110105.204113.93286322.en.html

Also see

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modes

Aditya

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-02-15 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-15 10:17 Ian Lawrence
2012-02-15 10:26 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-02-15 16:47   ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]

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