From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17817 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: m-letter Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:53:57 -0500 Organization: WexfordPress Message-ID: <200501101753.57448.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <7F99F590-5FE6-11D9-8818-0030659899AA@fiee.net> <41DE6D22.4020104@elvenkind.com> <41DE98D9.1020105@hccnet.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105398230 16415 80.91.229.6 (10 Jan 2005 23:03:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:03:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jan 11 00:03:41 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Co8ZZ-0006Kq-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:03:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA7A12793; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:03:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04871-02; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:03:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC7712787; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:03:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0908C12787 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:03:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04887-01 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:03:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (unknown [68.168.78.202]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D161277F for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:03:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from 69-174-190-44.frdrmd.adelphia.net ([69.174.190.44]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP id <20050110230333.QZAT25543.mta10.adelphia.net@69-174-190-44.frdrmd.adelphia.net>; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:03:33 -0500 Original-To: r.ermers@hccnet.nl, mailing list for ConTeXt users User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 In-Reply-To: <41DE98D9.1020105@hccnet.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17817 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17817 On Friday 07 January 2005 09:12, Rob Ermers wrote: > Dear friends, > > Thanks for your reactions to my previous message. > > After some experimenting I succeeded in creating a letter with > m-letter.tex and an xml database. I shall put the model on the wiki soon. > > However, one problem remains to be solved. The command \input after > \startbuffer is not recognised. > > Do you have an idea how to get it right? > > Regards, > I don't know if this is helpful but I have used letterformat.tex which is taken from the Knuth _TeXBook_ For mailing list/ form letter applications I have used some truly ancient macros called "midnight macros" by Marcel Van der Goot.. The TeXsis macros by Eric Myers have a form letter application also. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf