Thank you, Taco, that is exactly what I need! Jelle On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 10:44 AM Taco Hoekwater <t...@elvenkind.com> wrote: > > > > > On 21 Sep 2018, at 10:30, Henri Menke <henrime...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 21/09/18 20:09, J Huisman wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm getting back to using ConTeXt after a couple of years, so I might > >> be missing something obvious... > >> > >> I would like to add an I.D. code to the name of my outputfile, but > >> since this will be used in an automated environment I would like to > >> load the ID-code from the source file. > >> > >> MWE: test.tex > >> > >> \starttext > >> > >> \def\idcode{something} > >> > >> Some text, whatever. > >> > >> \stoptext > >> > >> If I typeset with: context text --result=test-idcode the result is > >> obviously "test-idcode.pdf", but I want to get a file name: > >> "test-something.pdf" > >> Is this possible? > > > > Once you enter TeX, the output file has been opened. The very concept > > of a filesystem forbids you to change the filehandle while writing. So > > no, it is not possible easily. > > But it can be done sneakily … > > > % start demo > \enabledirectives[system.callbacks.permitoverloads] > % previous line allows redefinition of ‘wrapup_run’ > > % to keep the code short, I use a direct definition of > % \idcode and \ctxlua. Nicer would be to store the desired > % output name in a lua variable and replace the > % \ctxlua with \startluacode … \stopluacode with > % a string.format inside it. > > \def\idcode{something} > > \ctxlua{callbacks.register('wrapup_run', function() > os.execute("cp \jobname.pdf doc-\idcode.pdf") > end)} > > \starttext > Hello from \idcode > \stoptext > % stop demo > > Taco > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
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