mtx-interface(1)

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✨ mtx-interface ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to mtx-interface — aka the ConTeXt Interface Related Goodies 🎀 it's the little script that spits out editor/interface goodies for ConTeXt, and it lives in the mtx family, so you run it through the mtxrun launcher, not directly. iykyk 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

mtx-interface — ConTeXt Interface Related Goodies ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mtxrun --script interface [ OPTIONS ...  ] [ FILENAMES ]

that's it, that's the summoning ritual 🫶

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

mtx-interface — ConTeXt Interface Related Goodies. no cap, that's the whole vibe of the thing: it generates interface files and reports on commands. the options below are where all the actual lore lives 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --interfaces — generate context mkii interface files ✨
  • --context — equals --interfaces --messages --languages (so it's the combo meal 🍓)
  • --scite — generate scite interface
  • --bbedit — generate bbedit interface files
  • --jedit — generate jedit interface files
  • --textpad — generate textpad interface files
  • --vim — generate vim interface files 🧚
  • --text — create text files for commands and environments
  • --raw — report commands to the console
  • --check — generate check file
  • --meaning — report the mening of commands
  • --tokens — show the internal representation of commands 👀
  • --toutf — replace named characters by utf
  • --preprocess — preprocess mkvi files to tex files [force,suffix]
  • --suffix — use given suffix for output files
  • --force — force action even when in doubt 💀
  • --pattern — a pattern for meaning lookups

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

More information about ConTeXt and the tools that come with it can be found at:

ngl, if you're lost in the interface sauce, the wiki and the mailing list are the group chat you actually want to be in 💖

and that's a wrap, bestie 🎀 this was version 0.13, dated 01-01-2023 — iconic behavior from the ConTeXt Interface Related Goodies era, fr fr ✨💅🌈

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