Re: Typing efficiency

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Hi,

Sounds like a job for the blocks mechanism more so than buffers:


\defineblock[entext]
\defineblock[nltext]
  
\defineselector [language] [max=2,n=1]
\startmode[en]
    \setupselector[language][n=1]
    \keepblocks[entext]
\stopmode
\startmode[nl]
    \setupselector[language][n=2]
    \keepblocks[nltext]
\stopmode
 
\starttext
 
\startsection[title=\select{language}{English title}{Dutch title}]
 
\beginentext
    This is English text.
\endentext
\beginnltext
    This is Dutch text.
\endnltext
 
\stopsection
 
\stoptext


Best wishes,
Taco

> On 4 Sep 2020, at 14:02, Jan Willem Flamma <register12c@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear list member,
>  
> Following up from:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg94719.html
>  
> The below MWE works but how can I avoid having to type
>     \startmode[en]
>         \getbuffer[en]
>     \stopmode
>     \startmode[nl]
>         \getbuffer[nl]
>     \stopmode
>  
> after every block of text? 
>  
> I tried to define a new start/stop pair as follows:
> \definestartstop[Bufen][
>     before={\startmode[en]
>         \startbuffer[en]},
>     after={\stopbuffer
>         \getbuffer[en]
>         \stopmode}]
>  
> but that fails.
>  
> No doubt a clever solution exists that minimizes the typing. 
>  
> Kind regards,
> Jan Willem
>  
>  
> ===
> \setupinteraction[state=start]
>  
> %\enablemode[nl]
> \enablemode[en]
>  
> \defineselector [language] [max=2,n=1]
> \startmode[en]
>     \setupselector[language][n=1]
> \stopmode
> \startmode[nl]
>     \setupselector[language][n=2]
> \stopmode
>  
> \starttext
>  
> \startsection[title=\select{language}{English title}{Dutch title}]
>  
>     \startbuffer[en]
>         This is English text.
>         \stopmode
>     \stopbuffer
>     \startbuffer[nl]
>         This is Dutch text.
>     \stopbuffer
>  
>     \startmode[en]
>         \getbuffer[en]
>     \stopmode
>     \startmode[nl]
>         \getbuffer[nl]
>     \stopmode
>  
> \stopsection
>  
> \stoptext
>  
>  
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