Hi, Aren’t environments used for setups (and not for textual content). Maybe a buffer may be what you want ? https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/startbuffer Best, Denis Von: Jeroen Gesendet: Montag, 4. März 2024 06:15 An: mailing list for ConTeXt users Betreff: [NTG-context] Re: Local alternative to \input With a single environment it seems to work, though when I expand it to multiple, it does not seem to work anymore \starttext SomeText \\ \environment aaa \\ SomeText \\ \environment bbb \\ SomeText \\ \startenvironment aaa \samplefile{lorem} \stopenvironment \startenvironment bbb \samplefile{tufte} \stopenvironment \stoptext Op do 4 jan 2024 om 20:14 schreef Henning Hraban Ramm >: Am 04.01.24 um 18:00 schrieb Jeroen: > I just would like to have a lot of mark-up for combined figures and > tables etc moved out of the way, similar to this. I am loosing the > general documetn flow because of all this markup. Would there be a > construction similar to this: > > \starttext > > \environment foo > \environment bar > > \startenvironment foo > this is a lot of text > \stopenvironment > > \startenvironment bar > and this is another piece of text > \stopenvironment > > \stoptext An environment is a separate file. \environment is like \input with a few more checks, e.g. it loads the file only once. e.g. -- file "env_foo.tex" -- \startenvironment env_foo % settings \stopenvironment -- -- file document.tex -- \environment env_foo \starttext % whatever \stoptext -- Instead of the call within your document, you can also call context --environment=env_foo.tex document (Usually that makes only sense in XML workflows.) Hraban ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________