From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>
Subject: Re: Using command line values in a TeX document; writing a script?
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:54:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed457049-de67-05a1-2dd8-dba45397c0f3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <593CDD5F-DBA7-4A5F-8236-09BEC3B5F356@rna.nl>
Gerben Wierda schrieb am 15.04.2020 um 12:19:
>> On 14 Apr 2020, at 11:52, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
>>> On 14 Apr 2020, at 11:25, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> This helps for adding information to my processing.
>>>
>>> What I was also looking for is that I don’t have a test.tex anymore, just the XML file I am parsing and a command line action.
>>>
>>> So, I use mtxrun, give it the name of an XML. lua code (using a ’script’ somewhere?) reads the XML, extracts a name (e.g. ‘foo’) from it, creates a .tex file (e.g. ‘foo.tex’), produces a .pdf file from that .tex file (e.g. ‘foo.pdf').
>> When processing XML, I normally use
>>
>> context —environment=whatever.tex file.xml
>>
>> with whatever.tex being a mix of tex and lua to setup and process the XML directly,
>> perhaps including other XML files as needed.
> But this means that the whatever.tex file needs to exist beforehand and the result is whatever.pdf
>
> I want the actual PDF to be produced have a name that comes from the XML I am processing and thus the whatever.tex file be created by lua. There is no whatever.tex file before I run the command.
>
> Pre-command:
> XML:
> contains file name “foo”
> there is no .tex file
>
> Command:
> produces foo.tex (gets the name from the XML) and “foo.pdf"
The TeX file in Tacos example contains the xmlsetup entries which are used
to map the XML tags to ConTeXt commands and environment, the resulting
PDF file has the same name as the XML file.
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-15 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-13 8:29 Gerben Wierda
2020-04-14 7:16 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-04-14 9:25 ` Gerben Wierda
2020-04-14 9:52 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-04-15 10:19 ` Gerben Wierda
2020-04-15 11:54 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2020-04-15 12:13 ` Gerben Wierda
2020-04-15 12:43 ` r.ermers
2020-04-14 10:05 ` Hans Hagen
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