Hi, Maybe you are going about it the wrong way, to pass text through external commands and get the results, you should use filters, that is what they do.
Sys macros are for running commands, not passing text to them. Cheers Lex On 28 February 2011 20:23, Michael Wild <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Feb 26, 3:04 pm, Michael Wild <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I need to invoke a program in a inline-macro and thought I could do this >> via the {sys:} system attribute. However, it seems that something really >> strange happens, with the {passtext} string. >> >> In the attached example, I have the custom macro echo:[<text>] which >> invokes the python script filter.py. That script just writes its first >> argument to the file "somefile", reads the file back and prints the >> results to stderr and stdout. >> >> Now, what happens, is that everything seems to be fine in the generated >> output (test.html), but the temporary file "somefile" only seems to >> contain nonsense. No matter what the argument to the echo:[] macro is, >> it only contains '0' (where I used decimal character entities). >> Also, the output on stderr only shows a 0. Running asciidoc in verbose >> mode shows the invocation of filter.py only with the 0, too. >> >> How can this be? How can the output of asciidoc be fine, when the >> intermediate file clearly is not. In reality my filter.py is more >> complicated, of course, and needs to invoke other tools on the >> intermediate file before creating the final output, which, of course, >> choke on it. >> >> Thanks for any help on this... >> >> Michael >> >> test.tgz >> < 1KViewDownload > > > OK, tracked it down. Seems like the pass-through text in macros gets > replaced by a place-holder in Lex.subs(), and what I saw (the > "0") is actually that place-holder, where the 0 is a counter. > So it seems like I need to pass the argument as the "target", but that > is also not very desirable since it doesn't seem to be very > idiomatic... > > Michael > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
