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* A "Lorem ipsum" module?
@ 2012-07-18  9:42 Marcin Borkowski
  2012-07-18 10:18 ` Marco
  2012-07-18 11:33 ` Philipp Gesang
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2012-07-18  9:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi all,

in LaTeX, there is quite a useful package called "lipsum", for
typesetting varioud amounts of "Lorem ipsum" stuff.  Is there anything
like that in ConTeXt?  (I know about \input knuth, \input tufte etc.,
but that is not exactly what I have in mind, especially when giving a
sample of some design to a customer;).)

If not (as I suspect), what should I do to write such a module?  I
expect this shouldn't be too difficult, and I could learn a few things
(like using key-value syntax in ConTeXt, for instance); are there any
recommendations for people wanting to learn to write a (simple) module
for ConTeXt (other than the relevant wiki page)?  For example, which
existing modules might I want to take and read the source code of?

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
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* Re: A "Lorem ipsum" module?
@ 2012-07-19  1:27 Rogers, Michael K
  2012-07-19  5:30 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
  2012-07-19 11:08 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Rogers, Michael K @ 2012-07-19  1:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 2012-07-18 Marcin Borkowski <mbork@???> wrote:

> in LaTeX, there is quite a useful package called "lipsum", for
> typesetting varioud amounts of "Lorem ipsum" stuff. Is there anything
> like that in ConTeXt? (I know about \input knuth, \input tufte etc.,
> but that is not exactly what I have in mind, especially when giving a
> sample of some design to a customer;).)

The LaTeX lipsum seems to have been pre-download from lipsum.com<http://lipsum.com>.  ConTeXt makes this relatively easy.  The one problem that might be solved better is that the paragraphs come in a single xml node separated by single newlines.  I defined a lines environment to make these into paragraphs, which is not as pretty as I would like.

\startxmlsetups xml:Lorem:base
\xmlsetsetup{Lorem}{*}{-}
\xmlsetsetup{Lorem}{feed|lipsum}{xml:Lorem:*}
\stopxmlsetups
\xmlregisterdocumentsetup{Lorem}{xml:Lorem:base}
\startxmlsetups xml:Lorem:feed
  \xmlflush{#1}
\stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups xml:Lorem:lipsum
  \xmlflush{#1}
\stopxmlsetups
\definelines[LoremLines]
\def\Lorem#1{% #1 = number of paragraphs to request
  \startLoremLines
  \xmlprocessfile{Lorem}{http://www.lipsum.com/feed/xml?amount=#1&what=paras&start=yes}{}
  \stopLoremLines
}
\starttext
\setupindenting[yes,20pt]
\setuplines[LoremLines][command=\blank,indenting=yes]
\Lorem{12}
\stoptext


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2012-07-19  5:30 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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