Re: setting variable on cmd-line

[luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Peter Münster wrote:
>
>> I've a little feature request:
>> It would be nice, to have a command line option like "--setvalue x=y" or
>> similar for the "context" command to define a variable for the job.
>>
>> Modes are already very nice, but often I need just one value for
>> conditional compiling a document instead of many binary switches.
>>
>> Perhaps the "context --arguments" option is what I'm looking for, but I
>> didn't find how to use it.
>
> Hello,
>
> After reading a bit in mtx-context.lua, I've found out how to use
> --arguments:
>
> test-file:
>
> \starttext
> Value of myVar: \ctxlua{tex.print(document.arguments["arguments=myVar"])}
> \stoptext
>
> cmd-line:
>
> context --arguments=myVar=myValue test
>
> But this syntax is very strange!
Does
 context --arguments="myVar=myValue" test
work too ?
-- 
luigi
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