Command/input

\input

Syntax

\input file
file	name of the file

Description

The command \input filename is replaced by the content of the text file filename.

When no file extension is specified the extension .tex is assumed.

Unlike the case with project structure commands such as \project, \input will not cause ConTeXt to look in parent directories for the specified file (unless of course the given filename is actually a path beginning with ../ or the equivalent).

Example

We have two files, each containing a chapter:

% chapter-01.tex
\subject{Chapter 1}

This is the first chapter.

% chapter-02.tex
\subject{Chapter 2}

This is the second chapter.

The book file inputs both chapters:

% complete-book.tex
\starttext

% No extension specified, so .tex assumed
\input chapter-01
\input chapter-02

\stoptext

Compiling book.tex produces the following:

See also

• \ReadFile: Similar to \input but the filename is specified as an argument
• \readfile: Similar to \ReadFile with additional options when file is not found.
• \getbuffer: Get back the "formatted" content of a buffer.
• \typebuffer: Get back the content of a buffer as verbatim text.
• \typefile: Print a file verbatim
• \component and \environment for input commands with more descriptive names.
• Dummy text for other ways to produce filler text

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Default input files

ConTeXt includes a number of files that you can use with \input when you quickly need some filler text.

filename	description
aesop-de.tex	178 words: title and 2 paragraphs Der L\"owe und die M\"ucke Eine M\"ucke forderte mit den \"uberm\"utigsten Worten
bryson.tex	111 words Imagine trying to live in a world dominated by dihydrogen oxide, a compound that has no taste or smell and is so viable in its properties that it is generally benign but at other times swiftly lethal.
cow.pdf	The famous cow
davis.tex	133 words This nation, turning 100 years old, had no {\em Odyssey}, no St.~George slaying the dragon, no Prometheus. The emerging American genius for making a lot of money was a poor substitute for King
dawkins.tex	192 words I used a similar illustration in one of my Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1991. I said I had reason to believe that among my audience was a psychic,
demo-mps.tex	MetaPost demo
demo-tex.tex	Example ConTeXt file
demo-xml.tex	Example TeX/XML file
douglas.tex	204 words, 2 paragraphs Donald Knuth has spent the past several years working on a system allowing him to control many aspects of the design of his forthcoming books, from the typesetting and layout
hacker.jpg	The hacker logo
hawking.tex	81 words If [in 2600] you stacked all the new books being published next to each other, you would have to move at ninety miles an hour just to keep up with the end of the line. Of course, by 2600 new artistic
khatt-ar.tex	Arabic text. قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ لِكَاتِبِهِ عُبَيْدِ اللّٰهِ بْنِ أَبِي رَافِعٍ: أَلِقْ دَوَاتَكَ، وَ أَطِلْ جِلْفَةَ قَلَمِكَ، وَ فَرِّجْ بَيْنَ السُّطُورِ، وَ قَرْمِطْ بَيْنَ الْحُرُوفِ؛ فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ أَجْدَرُ بِصَبَاحَةِ الْخَطِّ.
khatt-en.tex	47 words ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib said to his scribe ʿUbaydullāh ibn Abī Rāfiʿ: your inkwell before you, sharpen the edge of your pen, make sure there is open space between the lines, and set your letter|-|spacing closely. Now {\em that} is the way to make the script shine!
knuth.tex	117 words, 3 paragraphs Thus, I came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large||scale user; the designer should also write the first
linden.tex	95 words The warm water spills north and south through a series of ocean currents that mirror to some degree the cells in the atmosphere above the water. Like the atmospheric cells, for instance, these giant oceanic gears
lorem.tex	122 words Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur massa turpis, semper quis fringilla ut, viverra nec risus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac
materie.tex	72 words. A list of tools, written in old Dutch. Zaagh, of Steek||zaagh. Domme||kraght. Mokers.
mill.png	Black-and-white photograph of a windmill
montgomery.tex	140 words Making oil requires a specific series of geological accidents over inconceivable amounts of time. First, organic-rich sediment needs to be burried faster than it can decay. Then the stuff needs to get pushed
reich.tex	43 words. Every line is a quotation. \quotation {Heavy smoke} \quotation {Stand by, stand by} \quotation {It's full a' smoke}
sample.tex	566 words. Table of contents of the directory.
spider.eps	Spider!
thuan.tex	98 words Had our solar system included two suns, the problem would have involved three bodies (the two suns and each planet), and chaos would have been immediately obvious. Planets would have had
tufte.tex	91 words We thrive in information||thick worlds because of our marvelous and everyday capacity to select, edit, single out, structure, highlight, group, pair, merge,
ward.tex	57 words The Earth, as a habitat for animal life, is in old age and has a fatal illness. Several, in fact. It would be happening whether humans had ever evolved or not. But our presence is
weisman.tex	53 words Since the mid-1990s, humans have taken an unprecedented step in Earthly annals by introducing not just exotic flora or fauna from one ecosystem into another, but actually inserting exotic genes into the operating
zapf.tex	98 words Coming back to the use of typefaces in electronic publishing: many of the new typographers receive their knowledge and information about the rules of typography