Re: [dev-context] piping to ConTeXt

2009-05-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Maybe you can ask her to add that file :-) Once we figure out if it's needed for this purpose at all. There is already a use for it. When you type \input nonexistantfile, then you can type null at the tex prompt to make tex

Re: [dev-context] piping to ConTeXt

2009-05-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello Hans, Asymptote developers wonder if there's a way to pipe to ConTeXt. More precisely, they want to do the following: context misc/null * \newbox\ASYbox \newdimen\ASYdimen

Re: [dev-context] piping to ConTeXt

2009-05-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: a more context friendly way would be to load a module that defined a few commands, like I think that is not the point. The point is that sometimes you want to pipe input directly into context, and you simply can't at the moment, because context and texexec refuse to run

Re: [dev-context] piping to ConTeXt

2009-05-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: a more context friendly way would be to load a module that defined a few commands, like I think that is not the point. The point is that sometimes you want to pipe input directly into context, and you simply can't at the moment, because context and

Re: [dev-context] piping to ConTeXt

2009-05-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Asymptote developers wonder if there's a way to pipe to ConTeXt. I didn't start inspecting anything as I suspect that it's quite possible that nobody has ever tried that so far. i have no clue what that means; context is just using tex so anything that applies to tex

Re: [dev-context] piping to ConTeXt

2009-05-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 17:19, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Do you know someone who maintains a major ConText distribution. Indeed I have very poor contacts (I don't know many people even if they live in the same village). Maybe you can ask her to add that file :-) Once we figure out if it's needed

Re: [dev-context] piping to ConTeXt

2009-05-23 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 24 May 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Maybe you can ask her to add that file :-) Once we figure out if it's needed for this purpose at all. There is already a use for it. When you type \input nonexistantfile, then you can type null at the tex prompt to make tex continue with the rest