How to Define a Library

How to Define a Library

[Marc van Dongen]

Dear Group,

Could somebody help me with the following please?

I am trying to define a CONTEXT library as suggested
by an example sent to me by Hans Hagen:

%D \module
%D   [       file=m-xypic,
%D        version=1997.01.15,
%D          title=\CONTEXT\ Extra Modules,
%D       subtitle=\XYPIC\ Connections,
%D         author=Hans Hagen,
%D           date=\currentdate,
%D      copyright={PRAGMA / Hans Hagen \& Ton Otten}]
[snip]
\input xy  
\xyoption{all}
\endinput 

I created a file called m-marcpdf.tex. Added a suitable
header to it by changing the m-xypic to m-marcpdf and
changing the \input and some other small modifications.
I then tried to include it in another file with the
\usemodule[marcpdf] command. But that's where texexec ran into
troubles:

system         : no macros found in m-marcpdf
system         : no macros found in s-marcpdf
system         : no macros found in p-marcpdf

I also tried to put m-marcpdf.tex as well as the file
it was trying to include in tex/context/base in my
TETEX distribution but without much luck.

What am I doing wrong? Is there some documentation on
how to do this?

Regards,

Marc van Dongen
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Re: How to Define a Library

[Taco Hoekwater]

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc van Dongen <dongen@cs.ucc.ie> writes:

    Marc> Dear Group, Could somebody help me with the following
    Marc> please?

    Marc> system : no macros found in m-marcpdf 

The message is slightly misleading, context is actually trying

   m-marcpd.tex

You need to make sure that your files have at most 8 chars in their
name because of backward compatibility with MS-DOS. If you don't like
such a really short name to be keyed in by the user (in this case also 
you), you can define a filename synonym like this:

\definefilesynonym [marcpdf] [marcpd]

(first arg is the new name, second arg is the at most 6 chars from the 
real filename)

greetings, taco

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Re: How to Define a Library

[Hans Hagen]

At 09:29 AM 11/10/99 +0000, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>   m-marcpd.tex
>
>You need to make sure that your files have at most 8 chars in their
>name because of backward compatibility with MS-DOS. If you don't like
>such a really short name to be keyed in by the user (in this case also 
>you), you can define a filename synonym like this:
>
>\definefilesynonym [marcpdf] [marcpd]
>
>(first arg is the new name, second arg is the at most 6 chars from the 
>real filename)

The m- p- and s- prefixes are reserved. I will add u- for user modules
soon. So, be prepared to change this name later, or, use enviroments: 

\environment u-marcpdf.tex

Hans

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