> Am 25.01.2021 um 18:58 schrieb Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu>: > > or some variant of that should also work. But the filter module does make it > easier to store the results in another directory so that they are out of > sight.
No, you need additional file system commands. > Here is a simple example: Thank you! Meanwhile, looking at my LilyPond module, I got as far as: """ \startmodule[tikzfilter] \usemodule[filter] % docs see https://github.com/adityam/filter \def\TIKZTEMP{tikztemp} % name of folder for TikZ/buffer files \startbuffer[tikz::before] \environment env_world % contains font setup etc. \environment env_TikZ % contains TikZ settings \startpagefigure \starttikzpicture[thick,domain=-90:90]% TODO: make this configurable \stopbuffer \startbuffer[tikz::after] \stoptikzpicture \stoppagefigure \stopbuffer \define[1]\ParseTikZFile% #1 is the name of the output file {\ctxlua{thirddata.parsetikzfile("#1")}} \startluacode thirddata = thirddata or {} -- create temp folder if missing if not lfs.isdir("\TIKZTEMP") then lfs.mkdir("\TIKZTEMP") end function thirddata.parsetikzfile(name) -- name is like \TIKZTEMP/mainfile-temp-tikz-21.pdf logs.report("TIKZFILTER","name='" .. name .. "'") context("\\externalfigure[" .. name .. "]") end \stopluacode \defineexternalfilter[tikz][ cache=yes, purge=no, directory=\TIKZTEMP, bufferbefore={tikz::before}, bufferafter={tikz::after}, readcommand=\ParseTikZFile, output={\externalfilterbasefile.pdf}, % ConTeXt never writes results to other directories filtercommand={context --batchmode --once --autopdf=auto --result=\externalfilterbasefile\space \externalfilterinputfile\space && mv \externalfilterbasefile.pdf\space \TIKZTEMP/}, ] \stopmodule Hraban ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
