Thanks,
I was already trying to jump through the hoops of \ctxlua, but this is really 
simple and exactly what I needed. The offline calls to context/metapost figure 
production now can get all the information needed to synchronize with the main 
document.
Hans van der Meer

On 16 okt. 2011, at 19:32, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> 
> Am 16.10.2011 um 19:14 schrieb Meer, H. van der:
> 
>> Thanks, but I am afraid I do not understand the mechanism well enough.
>> I did the follwoing call in the shell:
>> context --fontchoice="my font choice" test
>> 
>> And in the test.tex file:
>> variable mykey = <\getvariable{documents.arguments}{fontchoice}>\crlf
>> 
>> But that clearly didn't work.
> 
> <file name="test.tex">
> \doifdocumentargument {bodyfont} 
> {\setupbodyfont[\getdocumentargument{bodyfont}]}
> 
> \starttext
> This document uses 
> “\doifdocumentargumentelse{bodyfont}{\getdocumentargument{bodyfont}}{Latin 
> Modern}” as bodyfont.
> \stoptext
> </file>
> 
> $ context --bodyfont=pagella test.tex
> 
> Wolfgang
> 

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