On 2013–01–07 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> That’s not possible because the content is stored only in memory and is therefore only available after you put the environment in your document.
> 
> What you can do is to set the content of the environment at the begin of the document and refer to it at a later position like you can do with buffers.
> 
> \usemodule[annotation]
> 
> \defineannotation[test][method=buffer,text=Test]

Nice, I didn't know the “method” key.

Blocks, in contrast to buffers, seem to be able to place content
before it is defined. I did not check how they work, but since I
didn't see any temporary files, the only possibility is to write the
data to the tuc file, I assume. It is by any chance possible to
provide a “method=block”?


Marco