From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/43899 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alan Stone" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: modes questions Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:45:19 +0200 Message-ID: <326847810809110545u44af9fe4pb4e10ce038299954@mail.gmail.com> References: <326847810809110247m2ae86edch725ae07e34e0a6e7@mail.gmail.com> <48C8F71E.50408@wxs.nl> <48C8F869.10106@elvenkind.com> <48C902EC.1040603@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221137313 8633 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2008 12:48:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:48:33 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Sep 11 14:49:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kdlbt-0006Ol-38 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:49:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A0C1FEDE; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:48:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06338-01-9; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:47:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B731FB3C; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:46:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 612981FB38 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:46:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05192-03-6 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:45:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.150]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE521FE24 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:45:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 21so134434eyc.38 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:45:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.16.10 with SMTP id 10mr3246401ebp.150.1221137119858; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:45:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.16.2 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:45:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <48C902EC.1040603@wxs.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:43899 Archived-At: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Hans Hagen 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) ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________