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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: Problem with \stoptabulate
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:34:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C49F1978-6FDA-4E47-BF90-82454DF25857@scorecrow.com> (raw)

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

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             reply	other threads:[~2023-03-20 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-20 23:34 Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context [this message]
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
2023-03-21  8:35 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context

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