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mtx-context – ConTeXt Process Management
Synopsis
mtxrun –script context [ OPTIONS … ] [ FILENAMES ]Description
ConTeXt Process ManagementOptions: Basic
- –run
- process (one or more) files (default action)
- –make
- create context formats
- –ctx=name
- use ctx file (process management specification)
- –noctx
- ignore ctx directives and flags
- –interface
- use specified user interface (default: en)
- –autopdf
- close pdf file in viewer and start pdf viewer afterwards
- –purge
- purge files either or not after a run (–pattern=…)
- –purgeall
- purge all files either or not after a run (–pattern=…)
- –usemodule=list
- load the given module or style, normally part of the distribution
- –environment=list
- load the given environment file first (document styles)
- –mode=list
- enable given the modes (conditional processing in styles)
- –path=list
- also consult the given paths when files are looked for
- –arguments=list
- set variables that can be consulted during a run (key/value pairs)
- –randomseed=number
- set the randomseed
- –result=name
- rename the resulting output to the given name
- –trackers=list
- set tracker variables (show list with –showtrackers)
- –directives=list
- set directive variables (show list with –showdirectives)
- –silent=list
- disable logcatgories (show list with –showlogcategories)
- –strip
- strip Lua code (only meant for production where no errors are expected)
- –errors=list
- show errors at the end of a run, quit when in list (also when –silent)
- –htmlerrorpage
- generate html error page instead (optional: =scite)
- –noconsole
- disable logging to the console (logfile only)
- –nodummy
- don’t create a dummy file (can confuse pdf viewers that keep file in view)
- –purgeresult
- purge result file before run
- –forcexml
- force xml stub
- –forcecld
- force cld (context lua document) stub
- –forcelua
- force lua stub (like texlua)
- –forcemp
- force mp stub
- –arrange
- run extra imposition pass, given that the style sets up imposition
- –noarrange
- ignore imposition specifications in the style
- –pages
- report pagenumbers of names pages and list references (–page=… or –page=…)
- –jit
- use luajittex with jit turned off (only use the faster virtual machine)
- –jiton
- use luajittex with jit turned on (in most cases not faster, even slower)
- –once
- only run once (no multipass data file is produced)
- –runs
- process at most this many times
- –forcedruns
- process this many times (permits for optimization trial runs)
- –batchmode
- run without stopping and do not show messages on the console
- –nonstopmode
- run without stopping
- –nosynctex
- never initializes synctex (for production runs)
- –synctex
- run with synctex enabled (better use \setupsynctex[state=start]
- –nodates
- omit runtime dates in pdf file (optional value: a number (this 1970 offset time) or string "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM")
- –nocompression
- forcefully turns off compression in the backend
- –trailerid
- alternative trailer id (or constant one)
- –generate
- generate file database etc. (as luatools does)
- –paranoid
- do not descend to .. and ../..
- –version
- report installed context version
- –global
- assume given file present elsewhere
- –nofile
- use dummy file as jobname
Options: Expert
- –touch
- update context version number (also provide –expert, optionally provide –basepath)
- –nostatistics
- omit runtime statistics at the end of the run
- –profile
- profile job (use: mtxrun –script profile –analyze)
- –timing
- generate timing and statistics overview
- –keeptuc
- keep previous tuc files (jobname-tuc-[run].tmp)
- –keeplog
- keep previous log files (jobname-log-[run].tmp)
- –lmtx
- force lmtx mode (when available)
- –overloadmode=error|warning|0–6|255
- enable csname overload checking
- –extra=name
- process extra (mtx-context-… in distribution)
- –extras
- show extras
Options: Special
- –pdftex
- process file with texexec using pdftex
- –xetex
- process file with texexec using xetex
- –mkii
- process file with texexec
- –pipe
- do not check for file and enter scroll mode (–dummyfile=whatever.tmp)
- –sandbox
- process file in a limited environment
- –addbinarypath
- prepend the (found) binarypath to runners
Author
More information about ConTeXt and the tools that come with it can be found at:maillist: ntg-context [at] ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage: http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
wiki: http://contextgarden.net