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From: "Alan Stone" <software.list.1es9s@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: modes questions
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:45:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <326847810809110545u44af9fe4pb4e10ce038299954@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C902EC.1040603@wxs.nl>

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>> (1.2) Is there a way to call the modelist and submit it to conditional
>>>> testing within ConTeXt ? For example, to lookup (true/false) the
>>>> presence of modes containing/starting with (an) alphannumeric
>
> \doifinstring
>
>>>> string(s) ?
>>> \doifmodeelse{somemode} { } { } etc etc etc
>>
>> This presumes that you actually know the list of enabled modes, so
>> I think a commalist of "set modes" would be useful as well. Modules
>> could use that to set up keyword-based behaviours.
>
> there is already such a mechanism (thomas uses it in his module)

Is this mechanism documented somewhere ?

> maybe at some point in mkiv we can provide the list because then i can
> use lua for keeping track of things; maintaining a comma separated list
> is tex is not that fast (and i use modes a lot to control styles that
> need a high performance); think of
>
> \enablemode[a,b,c]
>
> and a large list of enabled modes that we need to check for already set
> nodes (in lua it's just a hash and a the fill list a list-of-keys)
>
> btw, this would make mkiv incompatible with mkii

-- 
Best,
Alan

* using ConTeXt ver: 2008.08.18 14:00 MKIV fmt: 2008.8.22 int:
english/english (on Windows XP)
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-11 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-11  9:47 Alan Stone
2008-09-11 10:46 ` Hans Hagen
2008-09-11 10:52   ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-09-11 11:37     ` Hans Hagen
2008-09-11 12:45       ` Alan Stone [this message]
2008-09-11 12:41     ` Alan Stone
2008-09-17 19:11   ` Alan Stone
2008-09-17 20:59     ` Hans Hagen
2008-09-20 15:17       ` Alan Stone
2008-09-20 16:07         ` Hans Hagen
2008-09-20 16:19           ` Alan Stone
2008-09-21 16:06             ` Hans Hagen
2008-09-29 15:00   ` Alan Stone
2008-09-29 20:37     ` Hans Hagen
2008-09-30  7:18       ` Alan Stone
2008-09-30  7:23         ` Hans Hagen

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