From: Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: ntg-context mailing list <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Bruce Horrocks <ntg@scorecrow.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with \stoptabulate
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:32:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BFA26FB2-6D7A-4211-87C1-D0CDC930EBFA@scorecrow.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AAE688A4-23AE-46C2-BE84-A7D85D421C10@scorecrow.com>
Sorry everyone, ignore me, it doesn't work.
(Got my test files mixed up - aargh!)
> On 21 Mar 2023, at 11:06, Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Julian - I tried a startstop environment originally but it didn't work.
>
> The answer turns out to be trivial - just needed to use \long\def for \stoptabulate so the following appears to work:
>
> \def\startMyExample{\starttabulate[|r|c|l|p|]}
> \long\def\stopMyExample{\stoptabulate} %% long def required here
> \def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR}
>
> \starttext
> Here are some examples...
>
> \startMyExample
> \MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after}
> \MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin}
> \stoptabulate
>
> \stoptext
>
>
>> On 21 Mar 2023, at 05:23, jbf via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Not sure if this helps, Bruce, but there is \definestartstop
>>
>> Julian
>>
>> On 21/3/23 10:34, Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context wrote:
>>> I have a technical manual style document that requires a lot of examples to be included.
>>>
>>> They can easily be typeset with a table so I thought I would save myself some typing by defining macros for the various bits of a tabulate table. Thus I have:
>>>
>>> \def\startMyExample{\starttabulate[|r|c|l|p|]}
>>> \def\stopMyExample{\stoptabulate}
>>> \def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR}
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>> Here are some examples...
>>>
>>> \startMyExample
>>> \MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after}
>>> \MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin}
>>> \stopMyExample
>>> %\stoptabulate
>>>
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> The problem is that \stopMyExample doesn't work - the \stoptabulate isn't recognised and I get an end of file reached error. If use a straight \stoptabulate then it works as expected. That's fine but it would be nice, from an aesthetic point of view, to have start & stop 'paired' commands in the source.
>>>
>>> Presumably some sort of deep ConTeXt fu is going on - can anyone explain it please?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> —
>>> Bruce Horrocks
>>> Hampshire, UK
>
> —
> Bruce Horrocks
> Hampshire, UK
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-20 23:34 Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context
2023-03-21 5:23 ` jbf via ntg-context
2023-03-21 11:06 ` Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context
2023-03-21 11:32 ` Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context [this message]
2023-03-21 8:35 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
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