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’
>
iirc ,
this should be avoided ....

-- 
luigi
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