On Wed, 26 Apr 2023, Jeroen via ntg-context wrote: > I am using OpenSCAD to create drawings with the filter module with the > following MWE: > > \usemodule[filter] > \defineexternalfilter[openscad] > [filtercommand={/context/openscad/openscad -o \externalfilteroutputfile}, > output={\externalfilterbasefile.png}, > cache=force, > readcommand=\ReadImage] > \define[1]\ReadImage{\externalfigure[#1]} > > \starttext > \startopenscad > square(4,2); > \stopopenscad > \stoptext > > This works fine. I now want to use the following options added to the > command line: --view axes,edges,scales --viewall > > When I create an Openscad file test.scad, I can run it fine with the > following command line at a CLI window: > > openscad.com test.scad -o test.png --view axes,edges,scales --viewall > > When I add this to the filtercommand as following > > [filtercommand={/context/openscad/openscad -o > \externalfilteroutputfile --view axes,edges,scales --viewall} > > I cannot get it to run. Is there anything I am missing?
My guess is that you need: [filtercommand={/context/openscad/openscad -o \externalfilteroutputfile\space --view axes,edges,scales --viewall} this is because any macro \something gobbles the space after that. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________