Running ConTeXt
Revision as of 00:29, 31 March 2021 by Thangalin (talk | contribs) (Thangalin moved page Run scripts to Running ConTeXt: Scripts are a good idea, but maybe outside purview of wiki (due to maintenance))
While ConTeXt (i.e. mtxrun) already automates a lot, in bigger projects I find it tedious to call context with all its options all the time. One might use make or arara, but I mostly use shell scripts (on OSX and Linux). Here are some useful snippets:
#!/bin/bash OS=`uname` if [ "$TEXROOT" == "" ]; then # setup ConTeXt’s path; I used different locations on OSX and Linux # You might also check on the hostname or if the path exists if [ "$OS" == "Linux" ]; then source /var/opt/context/tex/setuptex /var/opt/context/tex elif [ "$OS" == "Darwin" ]; then source ~/Library/texmf/tex/setuptex ~/Library/texmf/tex fi fi # ulimit was 256 on older OSX versions, that's too low for bigger books if [ `ulimit` != "unlimited" ]; then ulimit -S -n 2048 fi # I like to have my PDFs versioned at least by date ISODATE=`date +"%Y-%m-%d"` PRD=$1 if [ "$1" == "" ]; then echo Which product? ls -Alh prd_*.tex exit 1 fi RESULT=${PRD}_${ISODATE} MODE=$2 if [ "$MODE" == "" ]; then echo Using lowres pictures for preview. Use 'print' parameter for highres mode. MOD=lowres else # print RESULT=${RESULT}_$MODE fi if [ "$OS" == "Darwin" ]; then OPEN='open -a Preview' SHARE=~/Box else OPEN="qpdfview --quiet" SHARE=~/Dropbox fi context --jit prd_${PRD} --result=_pdf/$RESULT --mode=$MOD if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then ${OPEN} _pdf/$RESULT.pdf & cp _pdf/${RESULT}.pdf ${SHARE}/projects/ fi