Re: Asymptote and Context

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Context NTG wrote:

> I am running context minimals and Asymptote on Windows.This example used to
> work in the past, but it seems to have stopped working. Is there anything
> that has changed?

I uploaded a new version of the filter module yesterday, but the error 
below seems unrelated.

> \usemodule[filter]
>
> \defineexternalfilter
> [ASY]
> [filtercommand={asy -tex "context" -outformat pdf
> -outname \externalfilteroutputfile},
> output=\externalfilterbasefile.pdf,
> cache=yes,
> readcommand=\ReadImage,]

Short answer: Change `filtercommand` to `filter`.

Long answer: The standard way to specify the command to be executed in 
each snippet is to use `filtercommand`. This should be the FULL command 
(as you would run on the command line). So in case of asymptote, it should 
be:

filtercommand={asy -tex context -outformat pdf -outname 
\externalfilteroutputfile\space \externalfilterinputfile}


Since many commands are of the form:

    command-name <options> input-name

a shortcut is provided in the filter module. Instead of saying

...
filtercommand={command-name <options> input-name},
...

you can say

filter={command-name <options>}

In the example that you posted, you are using `filtercommand=....` but the 
input filename is missing, so asymptote launches an interactive promt.

Aditya



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