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From: John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
Subject: Re: Conditional Text
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:11:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301192211.05064.john@wexfordpress.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030118170642.42ebdcbb.lazycode@linuxkungfu.org>

On Sunday 19 January 2003 00:06, Lazycode wrote:
> Greetings!
>
>   Is it possible to have parts of the ConTeXt file
> processed conditionally? I'm hoping to be able to do
> something like:
>
> (in ConTeXt file)
>
> Question: What is the derivative of $e^{sqrt{x}}$\\
> \some-command-start
> Answer: $\frac{d}{dx} e^{sqrt{x}} ... $
> \some-command-end
>
> So that, in the command line, if I run
>
> "texexec --pdf quiz01.tex"  then it will NOT include
> the answer section, but if I run
> "texexec --pdf quiz01.tex -some-other-command"
> it WILL also include the answer section.
>
> I'm confident this can be done through an if or if-defined
> construct. However, I could not find such commands/macros
> in the ConTeXt manuals (both the beginners and the detailed
> manual).
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --tk
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In context there is a mode command that handles conditional text. 
See page 19 of the manual.

HTH
-- 

John Culleton
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-19 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-19  0:06 Lazycode
2003-01-19  0:12 ` Patrick Gundlach
2003-01-19 12:33   ` Hraban
2003-01-19 22:11 ` John Culleton [this message]
2003-01-20  9:07 ` Hans Hagen
2003-01-24 22:24   ` Johannes Hüsing
2003-01-24 22:24     ` Hans Hagen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-07 18:49 Conditional text Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-03-07 22:54 ` Hans Hagen
2002-03-11  0:21   ` Daniel Pittman

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