From: "Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Buffers and commands with optional arguments
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 12:09:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <115224fb0805310309w5b33be83h1e9b915c96cba174@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi Hans,
I got yesterday a bug report for my letter module if the \startletter
command takes no arguments.
The following example show the problem without the module.
\def\startletter
{\dosingleempty\dostartletter}
\def\dostartletter[#1]%
{\dostartbuffer[letter][startletter][stopletter]}
\starttext
% This did work
\startletter
Text
\stopletter
\getbuffer[letter]
% But this did create a error message from TeX
\startletter
Text
\stopletter
\getbuffer[letter]
\stopletter
One solution for the second text can be solved when I add
a \relax after the \startletter command but I wanted a better
solution.
Because TeX mentions \flushbufferline in error message I tried
to modify the macro and came to the following solution.
%\def\flushbufferline#1%
\long\def\flushbufferline#1%
{\iftmpblockstarted
\ifsegmentatebuffer
\ifemptybufferline
\immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string\stopbufferparagraph }%
\immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string\startbufferparagraph}%
\else
\immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}%
\fi
\else
\immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}%
\fi
\else
\doifsomething{#1}
{\tmpblockstartedtrue
%\immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string#1}}%
\immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}}%
\fi}
The macro has to be defined as long and the \string
in the \write command has to be removed. I made a
few short tests and saw no negative sideeffects from
my changes.
Another problem could arise with a few commands
in the letter environment if no empty line is written
after \startletter.
The following result also in a error message.
\startletter
\dorecurse{2}{\input knuth\par}
\stopbuffer
With another modification of \flushbufferline also this
example could work, my final patch was now:
\long\def\flushbufferline#1%
{\iftmpblockstarted
\ifsegmentatebuffer
\ifemptybufferline
\immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string\stopbufferparagraph }%
\immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string\startbufferparagraph}%
\else
\immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}%
\fi
\else
\immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}%
\fi
\else
\convertargument#1\to\ascii
%\doifsomething{#1}
\doifsomething\ascii
{\tmpblockstartedtrue
%\immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string#1}}%
%\immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}}%
\immediate\write\tmpblocks{\ascii}}%
\fi}
Could my seond or at least my first patched version
of the \flushbufferline macro integrated into core-buf.mkii
because I won't force users of my letter module to put a \relax
after \startletter only because they use MkII.
Greetings
Wolfgang
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next reply other threads:[~2008-05-31 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-31 10:09 Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2008-05-31 10:33 ` Hans Hagen
2008-05-31 10:51 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-05-31 10:51 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-02 6:42 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-06-02 8:05 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-02 8:14 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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