From: Keith McKay <mckaymeister@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Iterate through a directory
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 19:26:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b329cc2c-1c96-8b31-84ca-0c8973b7b185@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <189e2309-5429-0754-f0f9-5e31f4877dad@wxs.nl>
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Thanks Hans I'll give it a try.
Best Wishes
Keith
On 04/07/2016 17:30, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 7/4/2016 5:52 PM, Keith McKay wrote:
>> Colleagues
>>
>> I'm preparing a booklet of figures which are stored in a directory,
>> however their is no structure in their naming. I could go through them
>> all and rename them along the lines of Pict1.jpg, Pict2.jpg etc and
>> \dostepwiserecurse as in the example below
>>
>>
>> \setupexternalfigures [directory={/a/directory}]
>> \starttext
>> \dostepwiserecurse{1}{10}{1}
>> {
>> \externalfigure[Pict\recurselevel.jpg]
>> }
>> \stoptext
>>
>> However, I was wondering if was possible to iterate through the
>> directory using a wildcard and have something like
>>
>> \externalfigure[*.jpg}
>>
>> to make it generic, or would I have to use lua.
>
> \startluacode
>
> for _, name in ipairs(dir.glob("*.jpg")) do
> context.externalfigure { name }
> end
>
> \stopluacode
>
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2016-07-04 15:52 Keith McKay
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