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From: Rik Kabel <context@rik.users.panix.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: starttexdefinition error in standalone, works in TL2013
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:01:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53121270.1090702@rik.users.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FDA647E-AA4E-4619-88EE-65DE254BA093@gmail.com>

On 2014-03-01 07:32, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 27.02.2014 um 05:08 schrieb Rik Kabel <context@rik.users.panix.com>:

{useful information on TL2013 and starttexdefinition skipped}

> BTW: It’s better to follow contexts rules and use start/stop for environments, this way you can make use of the buffer mechanism to store text.
>
> \unexpanded\def\startTranslation
>    {\begingroup
>     \dosingleempty\dostartTranslation}
>
> \def\dostartTranslation[#1]%
>    {\iffirstargument
>       \getrawparameters[Translation][setups=,language=en,#1]%
>     \fi
>     \grabbufferdata[Translation][startTranslation][stopTranslation]}
>
> \def\stopTranslation
>    {\language[\Translationlanguage]%
>     \Translationsetups
>     (\,\getbufferdata[Translation]\removeunwantedspaces\,)%
>     \endgroup}
>
> \starttext
>
> \startTranslation[language=nl]
> It betrays a slow-witted mentality to pursue the streams, but not to see the sources of things.
> \stopTranslation
>
> \stoptext
>

Thank you for the excellent example. The only problem I see is that it 
fails if no optional argument is present (in which case the keyval 
settings \TranslationXXX never get defined). This is easily remedied by 
removing the \iffirstargument and \fi wrapping the \getrawparameters.

-- 
Rik
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-01 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-27  4:08 Rik Kabel
2014-02-27 15:13 ` Rik Kabel
2014-03-01 12:32 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-03-01 17:01   ` Rik Kabel [this message]
2014-03-12 19:49   ` Movable code, was " Rik

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