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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: tex placeholder for use in metapost/metafun
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:18:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B34FDC24-A31E-49F4-B8B2-6B25D9004627@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i6e5cr$9n5$1@dough.gmane.org>


Am 10.09.2010 um 22:45 schrieb Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> as I like to desing a CI for an publishing Cover for an Organisation, I 
> have a question about usage:
> 
> What I wanna do is, having placeholders in the metapost coverpage, it 
> should work like
> 
> \author{}
> \title{}
> \swlogo{}
> 
> in the preamble
> 
> and should be automatically placed in the metapost graphic at runtime....
> 
> what would be the best way to do that?
> 
> I thought about
> 
> \def\author{content}
> 
> 
> and then in metapost \btex\author\etex
> 
> but not sure if it will work, or is there a more ConTeXtian way to do 
> so...

You can set the values with

\setvariables
  [document]
  [author=...,
   title=...,
   logo=...]

and access them with

\getvariable{document}{author}

You can also test for a content of the variable:

\doifvariable{document}{logo}{\externalfigure[\getvariable{document}{logo}]}

Wolfgang

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2010-09-10 20:45 Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz
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