IPESCRIPT(1)

✨ IPESCRIPT(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the <strong>General Commands Manual</strong> entry for <code>ipescript</code> 💖 — the little tool that runs your Ipe scripts, and yes it's written in <strong>Lua</strong>, and yes it is <em>iconic</em> for it.

🦋 NAME 🦋

ipescript — Run an Ipe script (written in Lua). That's the whole vibe. periodt 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ipescript script { arguments }

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So like, ipescript runs an Ipe script that's written in Lua. The Ipe bindings are automatically available in the script — you literally don't have to do anything, they're just there, like a bestie who already knows your coffee order ☕✨.

Ipescript goes looking for your script in any of the script directories. the way that it just searches for you 🥹

💀 real talk though: the script argument should not contain the .lua extension. Leave it off. The extension stays home. do not bring it.

💜 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 💜

ipescript respects the following environment variables, and honestly? respecting boundaries is so main character of it 👑

• IPELATEXDIR — the directory where ipetoipe runs Pdflatex. That's it, that's the whole thing 🧚
• IPELATEXPATH — the directory containing pdflatex and xelatex. If it's not set, they get searched for on the path. lowkey chill of it.
• IPESCRIPTS — a list of directories where Ipescript will look for scripts 🔍🌸
  • When this variable is not set, Ipe searches first the current directory, then ~/.ipe/scripts, and finally the system-wide Ipe script directory. (current dir → ~/.ipe/scripts → system-wide, in that exact order, no skipping 💅)
  • When this variable is set, it should contain a list of directories, separated by semicolons.
  • A single underscore _ is replaced by the system-wide Ipe script directory. Cute little shortcut, obsessed 🎀
• IPEDEBUG — set this to 1 for debugging output from ipescript. the way you'll get to see everything happening 🔥

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Otfried Cheong 💖 (the author, the icon, the moment)

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Please report bugs using Ipe bugzilla at http://ipe.otfried.org/bugzilla.html

not me asking you to file a bug instead of suffering in silence 🙈 fr fr, they wanna know.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Ipe is documented fully in The Ipe Manual, which is available online at http://ipe.otfried.org/manual/manual.html 📖✨

and that's the whole page bestie — this one was dated <strong>August 28, 2011</strong>, part of the <strong>General Commands Manual</strong> for <strong>IPESCRIPT(1)</strong>. go run your scripts, slay, and don't forget the .lua stays off 🫶💜