Re: How to typeset a repeated group of objects.

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:03 PM 12/15/2001 -0500, Sanjay Vohra wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I am sort of new to context and not familiar with all the commands and
>capabilities of the macro package.
>
>I have a collection of things that goes like
>
><<
>Name : ME101
>Title : Introduction to Mechanical Engineering
>Hours : 3
>Description : Basic Introduction to mechanincal Engineering.
> >>
>
>and this basic set is repeated maybe 50 times with different contents.
>
>My question is, what would be the best way to code this in, so it looks
>nice.

probably a tabulate

\def\StartRecord\Name#1\Title#2\Hours#3\Description#4\StopRecord
   {\starttabulate[|l|p|]
    \NC name        \EQ #1 \NC \NR
    \NC title       \EQ #2 \NC \NR
    \NC hours       \EQ #3 \NC \NR
    \NC description \EQ #4 \NC \NR
    \stoptabulate}

\StartRecord
   \Name ME101
   \Title Introduction to Mechanical Engineering
   \Hours 3
   \Description Basic Introduction to mechanincal Engineering.
\StopRecord
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