On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 16:42 +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > did anyone succeed in externalizing TikZ graphics with ConTeXt?
The external library is LaTeX-only and that unfortunately won't change because it heavily relies on implementation detail of LaTeX's output routine. > It’s about a project with hundreds of diagrams that (in the current state) > clutter the main directory with cryptically-named PDFs (at least sorted by > component name) and that on each ConTeXt run take a lot of runtime (I guess > also the many log lines slow the process). > > In 2013, Aditya said it wasn’t possible to externalize pgf/TikZ graphics as > documented in the pgf manual, and "perhaps" it would make sense to use his > filter module: filter is your best bet, in my opinion. > https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2013/071162.html > > Did anyone try to do that? I didn’t find anything in this list’s archives. > > The original pgf way is two-pass, and you’d need to call LaTeX with the > intended graphics name as --jobname; that’s far too much of a hassle for that > many graphics. > > I generally like how the filter module works, as you can also define the name > of every buffer, but my only experience with that is my LilyPond setup. > > If nobody has better advice, I’ll try to come up with a filter setup. That > would mean we’d avoid the tikz module, every TikZ diagram will get written to > a buffer of configurable name, and that (with preamble setup) will get run > through LaTeX. I read pgf had some restrictions in plain TeX mode, but perhaps > we can also use LuaTeX in plain mode to avoid the LaTeX dependency. > > Best, Hraban > ______________________________________________________________________________ > _____ > 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://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ______________________________________________________________________________ > _____ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
