Re: usemodule[letter]

[Thomas Friedrich <info@suud.de>]

I really had no idea that ConTeXt is so strict when assigning values.
I always used this notation, since it helps you to _not_ forget any
commas. I always thought the value-string would end with the last '}'.
 Thanks for pointing this out, Aditya. That is really good to know.

Thomas


2012/7/20 Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Thomas Friedrich wrote:
>
>> Hello together,
>>
>> my old set-up was an Ubuntu/tex-live installation, but I recently
>> (finally) did a reset-up, and I am now running ArchLinux together with
>> the context-minimals-git from AUR [1]. This should contain the latest
>> build.
>
>
> Yes, context-minimals-git is just a wrapper around first-setup.sh to make it
> easier to install and uninstall the context package.
>
>
>> As I understand it, there has been an update to the
>> letter-module, but there is currently no updated documentation
>> available. Is this correct?
>>
>> Please have a look at the following minimal example
>>
>> ------ >8 ------ min-ex.tex
>> \enableregime[utf]
>> \mainlanguage[de]
>>
>> \usemodule[letter]
>>
>> \setupletter
>>    [ toname={Max Musterman}
>>    , toaddress={Musterstraße 10}
>>    , fromname={Me}
>>    , fromaddress={Muster Weg 10}
>>    , phone={0123-45678}
>>    , mobile={0175-31689}
>>    , date=\currentdate
>>    , list={phone,mobile,date}
>>    , subject={This is a minimal example with missing reference list}
>>    , opening={Sehr geehrter Mustermann,}
>>    , closing={Mit freundlichen Grüßen,}
>>    , signature={Me}
>>    ]
>
>
> Note that ConTeXt has a very strict way of specifying key-value options. You
> need
>
> \setupletter
>    [
>      ....
>      key=value,
>      ....
>    ]
>
> You cannot have any space around the "=" sign **or** the ",". For the last
> option, you must either have a comma on the same line or the closing bracket
> on the same line. So, use
>
> \setupletter
>    [
>      ....
>      signature={Me},
>
>    ]
>
>
>> \startletter
>> \input knuth
>> \stopletter
>> ------ >8 ------
>>
>> $ texexec min-ex.tex
>>
>> or
>>
>> $ context min-ex.tex
>>
>> will only display the current date on the very right, but no phone or
>> mobile number.
>
>
> Perhaps because the list is set to "{phone,mobile,date}\n".
>
>
>> 1) What is the new way of setting up the reference line?
>> 2) Please also note the "space" between the addresser and his/her
>> address in the addressee field. Is there a way to get rid of this
>> space?
>
>
> Aditya
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