Re: A "Lorem ipsum" module?

From: "Rogers, Michael K" <mroge02@emory.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: A "Lorem ipsum" module?
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:27:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7F211FE8-9457-4D0D-AD7F-AB1C03806FD4@emory.edu> (raw)

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On 2012-07-18 Marcin Borkowski <mbork@???> wrote:

> in LaTeX, there is quite a useful package called "lipsum", for
> typesetting varioud amounts of "Lorem ipsum" stuff. Is there anything
> like that in ConTeXt? (I know about \input knuth, \input tufte etc.,
> but that is not exactly what I have in mind, especially when giving a
> sample of some design to a customer;).)

The LaTeX lipsum seems to have been pre-download from lipsum.com<http://lipsum.com>.  ConTeXt makes this relatively easy.  The one problem that might be solved better is that the paragraphs come in a single xml node separated by single newlines.  I defined a lines environment to make these into paragraphs, which is not as pretty as I would like.

\startxmlsetups xml:Lorem:base
\xmlsetsetup{Lorem}{*}{-}
\xmlsetsetup{Lorem}{feed|lipsum}{xml:Lorem:*}
\stopxmlsetups
\xmlregisterdocumentsetup{Lorem}{xml:Lorem:base}
\startxmlsetups xml:Lorem:feed
  \xmlflush{#1}
\stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups xml:Lorem:lipsum
  \xmlflush{#1}
\stopxmlsetups
\definelines[LoremLines]
\def\Lorem#1{% #1 = number of paragraphs to request
  \startLoremLines
  \xmlprocessfile{Lorem}{http://www.lipsum.com/feed/xml?amount=#1&what=paras&start=yes}{}
  \stopLoremLines
}
\starttext
\setupindenting[yes,20pt]
\setuplines[LoremLines][command=\blank,indenting=yes]
\Lorem{12}
\stoptext

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