From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: deeptextcommand and firstcharacter
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 19:43:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55EEA48B-263D-4956-9EAE-6FAB388430EC@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAANrE7q63nPe-coyKfWZc0DWxGivtASvU_7gkeMAYz2Wv9sYnw@mail.gmail.com>
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Am 21.09.2013 um 19:11 schrieb Thangalin <thangalin@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Most programming languages allow extraction of a character or substring from a string. For example, if I wanted to stylize the word Index:
>
> I... Index ...X
>
> It would be handy to do something like:
>
> \bold{\getcharacter[1]{#!}}... #1 ...\bold{\getcharacter[\stringlength{#!}]}
>
> That is a much more flexible solution than only providing a mechanism to get the first character.
>
> Is this possible?
You can use Lua!
\starttext
\cldcontext{string.sub("A short example text!",0,1)}
\cldcontext{string.sub("A short example text!",3,7)}
\cldcontext{string.sub("A short example text!",-5)}
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-21 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-21 5:50 Thangalin
2013-09-21 9:56 ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-21 17:11 ` Thangalin
2013-09-21 17:13 ` Thangalin
2013-09-21 17:43 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2013-09-21 18:46 ` Thangalin
2013-09-21 18:48 ` Thangalin
2013-09-21 18:55 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-21 20:04 ` Hans Hagen
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