From: Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
Subject: Re: How to display the pages of a particular section in another PDF?
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 11:03:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3f6faa7-d8fc-f044-0824-c71868c866b2@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1550657480.592642.1670193056410@mail.yahoo.com>
Am 04.12.22 um 23:30 schrieb Joel via ntg-context:
> I can use this code to display page 5 from a PDF:
>
> \externalfigure[filename.pdf][page=5]
>
> I am making a teacher's guide for a workbook (workbook.pdf). I need to
> be able to display on the page all pages of a particular section.
>
> The teacher's guide uses the same section titles as the workbook, e.g.:
>
> 17-A: Title
> 17-B: Title
>
> In other words, there is 1:1 pairing of section titles in the teacher's
> guide and the workbook.
>
> Is there any way to tell ConTeXt to display all of the pages for a
> particular section?
>
> \externalfigure[filename.pdf][section=17A]
Use a loop in Lua or TeX:
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros/Loops_and_Recursion
\dostepwiserecurse {5} {17} {1}
{\externalfigure[filename.pdf][page=\recurselevel]}
or
\startluacode
for s=5, 17 do
context.externalfigure({"filename.pdf"},{page=s})
end
\stopluacode
(untested)
Hraban
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2022-12-04 22:30 ` Joel via ntg-context
2022-12-05 9:42 ` Denis Maier via ntg-context
2022-12-05 10:03 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context [this message]
2022-12-05 12:13 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-12-05 16:39 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2022-12-05 17:30 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-12-05 18:23 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2022-12-05 20:22 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-12-06 0:39 ` Joel via ntg-context
2022-12-06 8:05 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-12-06 17:33 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
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