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From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	"Procházka Lukáš Ing." <LPr@pontex.cz>
Subject: Re: Modes and conditional part of the source
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 01:24:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <236ff066-108c-273f-3ddc-8582fe57aa48@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.zxw3fte862epfj@lpr>

On 2/28/2019 11:29 AM, Procházka Lukáš Ing. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm struggling with using modes to make a part of the text conditional.
> 
> Here is my code:
> 
> ----
> \def\b#1{\startmode[#1]}
> \def\e{\stopmode}
> 
> % \enablemode[100] % For optional usage
> 
> \starttext
>    A
>    \b{100} % Should be start of some conditional text from here ...
>      B
>    \e % ... to here
> \stoptext
> ----
> 
> Compilation fails with:
> 
> "
> tex error       > tex error on line 0 in file : ! Emergency stop
> <*> cont-yes.mkiv
> <empty file>
> *** (job aborted, no legal \end found)
> "
> 
> How to make the sample work?
modes are like buffers ... don't wrap them in macros

(using names like \b \e is a bad idea anyway)

Hans


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-01  0:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-28 10:29 Procházka Lukáš Ing.
2019-02-28 11:54 ` Aditya Mahajan
2019-02-28 12:14   ` Procházka Lukáš Ing.
2019-03-01  0:24 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2019-03-01  8:35   ` Hans van der Meer

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