From: Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: Jeroen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Filter Module with Openscad
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 15:03:18 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qq4sp949-6s48-qnr0-o6ps-576pn436o0ns@hzvpu.rqh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPtmdbMoRHboGQwb+d6E+e7w7KApS-GxqgNsnOMGYOGAgVc5Fw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 26 Apr 2023, Jeroen via ntg-context wrote:
> I am using OpenSCAD to create drawings with the filter module with the
> following MWE:
>
> \usemodule[filter]
> \defineexternalfilter[openscad]
> [filtercommand={/context/openscad/openscad -o \externalfilteroutputfile},
> output={\externalfilterbasefile.png},
> cache=force,
> readcommand=\ReadImage]
> \define[1]\ReadImage{\externalfigure[#1]}
>
> \starttext
> \startopenscad
> square(4,2);
> \stopopenscad
> \stoptext
>
> This works fine. I now want to use the following options added to the
> command line: --view axes,edges,scales --viewall
>
> When I create an Openscad file test.scad, I can run it fine with the
> following command line at a CLI window:
>
> openscad.com test.scad -o test.png --view axes,edges,scales --viewall
>
> When I add this to the filtercommand as following
>
> [filtercommand={/context/openscad/openscad -o
> \externalfilteroutputfile --view axes,edges,scales --viewall}
>
> I cannot get it to run. Is there anything I am missing?
My guess is that you need:
[filtercommand={/context/openscad/openscad -o \externalfilteroutputfile\space --view axes,edges,scales --viewall}
this is because any macro \something gobbles the space after that.
Aditya
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