recursion/loop with counter?

recursion/loop with counter?

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Hello again!

In a form I need a lot of empty, but numbered fields.
Can I access the counter of \dorecurse somehow, or is there another  
loop command?

e.g.
\dorecurse{20}{\bTR \bTD \LoopCounter bottles of beer \eTD \bTD{\strut}  
\eTD \eTR}
or
\dorecurse{20}{\definefield[Fld\LoopCounter][line][MySetup][]\field[Fld\ 
LoopCounter]}


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Re: recursion/loop with counter?

[Vit Zyka]

Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> In a form I need a lot of empty, but numbered fields.
> Can I access the counter of \dorecurse somehow, or is there another  

\recurselevel

Vit Zyka

Re: recursion/loop with counter?

[Hans Hagen]

Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> \dorecurse{20}{\bTR \bTD \LoopCounter bottles of beer \eTD \bTD{\strut}  
> \eTD \eTR}

\dorecurse{20}
   {\bTR \expanded{\bTD \recurselevel bottles of beer \eTD} \bTD \strut \eTD \eTR}

Hans


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Re: recursion/loop with counter?

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 06.01.2005 um 15:41 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> \dorecurse{20}
>   {\bTR \expanded{\bTD \recurselevel bottles of beer \eTD} \bTD \strut 
> \eTD \eTR}

But what if I need it in a call to some function like:

\dorecurse{10}{\SkillField{Skill\expanded\recurselevel}}

Then I always get 0 (or an error in some cases).


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Re: recursion/loop with counter?

[Hans Hagen]

Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Am 06.01.2005 um 15:41 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> 
>> \dorecurse{20}
>>   {\bTR \expanded{\bTD \recurselevel bottles of beer \eTD} \bTD \strut 
>> \eTD \eTR}
> 
> 
> But what if I need it in a call to some function like:
> 
> \dorecurse{10}{\SkillField{Skill\expanded\recurselevel}}

\dorecurse{10}{\expanded{\SkillField{Skill\recurselevel}}}

\expanded is one of the more interesting commands, it does *not* expand the 
\SkillField, only what comes after it

\startexpanded ... \stopexpanded does expand everything,

Hans



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m-letter

[Rob Ermers]

Dear friends,

Some time ago Wolfgang Zilig asked on this forum if the letter module is 
still supported. He also sent his log file, the last line of which reads:

system         : macros of module letter loaded
(C:\texmf\tex\plain\base\letter.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l.13 \nopagenumbers
?

I have been experimenting a few days with the letter module, exactly as 
described in xcorrespondence, with the use of an xml database. 
Unfortunately I cannot get it right either.

My log file shows a number of errors, the first being the  same as in 
Wolfgang's. The error seems to be not a missing file, since al files are 
found, but rather something  else.

Does anyone have a clue?

Kind regards,

Robert Ermers


specials       : fdf,tpd loaded
system         : macros of module letter loaded
(J:\tex\localtexmf\tex\context\base\m-letter.tex
system         : no macros found in module letter
color          : system rgb is global activated
system         : no macros found in module letter
)
system         : macros of module letter loaded
(J:\tex\texmf\tex\plain\base\letter.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l.13 \nopagenumbers
?
! Undefined control sequence.
l.14 \headline
               ={\ifnum\pageno>1
?
! Font \logofont=stan70 at 70.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
l.52 \font\logofont=stan70 at 70truept
?
....

Re: m-letter

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi,

Rob Ermers wrote:
> Dear friends,
> 
> Some time ago Wolfgang Zilig asked on this forum if the letter module is 
> still supported. He also sent his log file, the last line of which reads:
> 
> system         : macros of module letter loaded
> (C:\texmf\tex\plain\base\letter.tex
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.13 \nopagenumbers
> ?

That is a plain TeX input file, named "letter.tex". It is loaded because
ConTeXt uses the name you feed into \usemodule without prefix as last
resort (if it cannot find any version with a t-, s- or m- prefix).

It is not related to the ConTeXt letter module.

> specials       : fdf,tpd loaded
> system         : macros of module letter loaded
> (J:\tex\localtexmf\tex\context\base\m-letter.tex

What is in this file ? It is obviously present, but does it
actually contain the 'letter module' macros? (I doubt that)

Greetings, Taco

Re: m-letter

[Rob Ermers]

Dear friends,

Thanks for your reactions to my previous message.

After some experimenting I succeeded in creating a letter with 
m-letter.tex and an xml database. I shall put the model on the wiki soon.

However, one problem remains to be solved. The command \input after 
\startbuffer is not recognised.

Do you have an idea how to get it right?

Regards,

Robert

\startbuffer[texletter]
\input brieftekst
\stopbuffer

\setvariables
[letter:data]
[address=\XMLflush{address},
prefix=\XMLflush{prefix},
initials=\XMLflush{initials},
formalname=\XMLflush{formalname},
informalname=\XMLflush{informalname},
content={\getbuffer[texletter]}
]

Result in pdf:

Geachte Heer Hagen,
“input brieftekst
Met vriendelijke groet,

Re: m-letter

[John Culleton]

On Friday 07 January 2005 09:12, Rob Ermers wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> Thanks for your reactions to my previous message.
>
> After some experimenting I succeeded in creating a letter with
> m-letter.tex and an xml database. I shall put the model on the wiki soon.
>
> However, one problem remains to be solved. The command \input after
> \startbuffer is not recognised.
>
> Do you have an idea how to get it right?
>
> Regards,
>
I don't know if this is helpful but I have used letterformat.tex which is 
taken from the Knuth _TeXBook_ 

For mailing list/ form letter applications I have used some truly ancient 
macros called "midnight macros" by Marcel Van der Goot.. 

The TeXsis macros by Eric Myers have a form letter application also. 
-- 
John Culleton

Short list of publishing/marketing books:
http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf