On Fri, Nov 07 2008, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > > curl as os.spawn ? > > Why don't use lua-curl > > http://luaforge.net/projects/lua-curl/ > > 300kb extra in the binary and an extra portability headache.
I don't understand all the trouble... This works very well on live.contextgarden.net (luatex): \starttext bla \externalfigure[http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/hacker.jpg] bla \stoptext Fetching a pdf instead of a jpg should be possible too, I believe... Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________