sorted phone directory

sorted phone directory

[Johan Sandblom]

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I am maintaining a small vademecum for my workplace. One of the things
it contains is a list of handy phone numbers, which should be sorted.
Until now I have used the attached hack. It has worked reasonably well
until the directory outgrew the one page. Before I start to modify my
hack it occurred to me that ConTeXt most likely has a machinery for
this already. It is a sort of register, after all. I have looked in
the manual at registers and sorted lists but have not been able to
find what I want. The desired specifications are:

1. columns (to save space)
2. sorted (in a correct Swedish order)
3. spans several pages

Thanks for any pointers, Johan

-- 
Johan Sandblom, MD PhD
m +46735521477  Sweden
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the
will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
- Bertrand Russell

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Re: sorted phone directory

[Jaroslav Hajtmar]

Hello Johan.
I wonder whether it would be better to have a list of telephone numbers 
in an external file (eg csv file) that can handle aplication such as 
Excel or Calc. The list is sorted by this instrument and ConTeXt would 
just typed data from external file. For practical reasons it would be 
better to have that list in an external file.
I do these things with my scancsv.lua tool. Now I finishing module for 
ConTeXt.
see 
http://public.hajtmar.com/?cesta=JRsVFQdsBhwIWyAGFFsAJkBJQURsAgsVByYcDREAKh0X

Jaroslav Hajtmar


Dne 2.8.2011 11:08, Johan Sandblom napsal(a):

> I am maintaining a small vademecum for my workplace. One of the things
> it contains is a list of handy phone numbers, which should be sorted.
> Until now I have used the attached hack. It has worked reasonably well
> until the directory outgrew the one page. Before I start to modify my
> hack it occurred to me that ConTeXt most likely has a machinery for
> this already. It is a sort of register, after all. I have looked in
> the manual at registers and sorted lists but have not been able to
> find what I want. The desired specifications are:
>
> 1. columns (to save space)
> 2. sorted (in a correct Swedish order)
> 3. spans several pages
>
> Thanks for any pointers, Johan
>
>    
>
>
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Re: sorted phone directory

[Pontus Lurcock]

On Tue 02 Aug 2011, Johan Sandblom wrote:

> I am maintaining a small vademecum for my workplace. One of the things
> it contains is a list of handy phone numbers, which should be sorted.
> Until now I have used the attached hack. It has worked reasonably well
> until the directory outgrew the one page.

So if I understand correctly, everything is fine except that your
current solution only works for a single page? If so, replacing
\bTABLE with \bTABLE[split=yes] should do the trick. (Sorry, don't
have time to test this now, but it is documented at
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TABLE .)

Hope this helps,

Pont
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Re: sorted phone directory

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 02.08.2011 um 11:08 schrieb Johan Sandblom:

> I am maintaining a small vademecum for my workplace. One of the things
> it contains is a list of handy phone numbers, which should be sorted.
> Until now I have used the attached hack. It has worked reasonably well
> until the directory outgrew the one page. Before I start to modify my
> hack it occurred to me that ConTeXt most likely has a machinery for
> this already. It is a sort of register, after all. I have looked in
> the manual at registers and sorted lists but have not been able to
> find what I want. The desired specifications are:
> 
> 1. columns (to save space)
> 2. sorted (in a correct Swedish order)
> 3. spans several pages


Alternative solution with ConTeXt’s sorting mechanism:

\mainlanguage[swedish]

\definedescription
  [TelefonEntry]
  [width=2em]

\unexpanded\def\TelefonCommand#1#2#3%
  {\startTelefonEntry{#2}#3\stopTelefonEntry}

\definesorting[Telefon][Telefone]

\starttext

\Telefon[a]{78423}
\Telefon[b]{78264}
\Telefon[ö]{78264}
\Telefon[Ö]{23423}
\Telefon[å]{23402394}
\Telefon[åå]{23042}
\Telefon[ååå]{098234}

\startcolumns[n=3]
\placelistofsorts[Telefon][criterium=all,command=\TelefonCommand]
\stopcolumns

\stoptext

Wolfgang

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Re: sorted phone directory

[Johan Sandblom]

Thank you for your suggestions!

Jaroslav, having the numbers in a separate file and sorting there,
while possible, would increase overhead in managing the document and
make it impossible to enter phone numbers at other places in the text.

Pontus, splitting the table over pages would interact poorly with
columns since the first entry on the second page would be the one
after the last in the first column on the first page:
1  6 11
2  7 12
3  8 13

4  9 14
5 10 15

Wolfgang, this is what I was hoping for, but there are some problems:
- the numbers should be flush right
- in the real file entries are longer than in my example file, but
none so long as to require a line break.  Here many entries require a
line break and the next entry runs over the second line of the broken
entry. See a slightly more realistic example below.

Gratefully, Johan

\mainlanguage[swedish]

\definedescription
 [TelefonEntry]
 [width=2em]

\unexpanded\def\TelefonCommand#1#2#3%
 {\startTelefonEntry{#2}#3\stopTelefonEntry}

\definesorting[Telefon][Telefone]

\starttext

\Telefon[Eldallah Awdawebi]{78423}
\Telefon[Nada Pipidepaulou]{78264}
\Telefon[Aölaksd aölksd]{044578264}
\Telefon[Ö]{320399}
\Telefon[å]{23402394}
\Telefon[åå]{23042}
\Telefon[ååå]{098234}

\startcolumns[n=3]
\placelistofsorts[Telefon][criterium=all,command=\TelefonCommand]
\stopcolumns

\stoptext

2011/8/2 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>:
>
> Am 02.08.2011 um 11:08 schrieb Johan Sandblom:
>
>> I am maintaining a small vademecum for my workplace. One of the things
>> it contains is a list of handy phone numbers, which should be sorted.
>> Until now I have used the attached hack. It has worked reasonably well
>> until the directory outgrew the one page. Before I start to modify my
>> hack it occurred to me that ConTeXt most likely has a machinery for
>> this already. It is a sort of register, after all. I have looked in
>> the manual at registers and sorted lists but have not been able to
>> find what I want. The desired specifications are:
>>
>> 1. columns (to save space)
>> 2. sorted (in a correct Swedish order)
>> 3. spans several pages
>
>
> Alternative solution with ConTeXt’s sorting mechanism:
>
> \mainlanguage[swedish]
>
> \definedescription
>  [TelefonEntry]
>  [width=2em]
>
> \unexpanded\def\TelefonCommand#1#2#3%
>  {\startTelefonEntry{#2}#3\stopTelefonEntry}
>
> \definesorting[Telefon][Telefone]
>
> \starttext
>
> \Telefon[a]{78423}
> \Telefon[b]{78264}
> \Telefon[ö]{78264}
> \Telefon[Ö]{23423}
> \Telefon[å]{23402394}
> \Telefon[åå]{23042}
> \Telefon[ååå]{098234}
>
> \startcolumns[n=3]
> \placelistofsorts[Telefon][criterium=all,command=\TelefonCommand]
> \stopcolumns
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
>
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Johan Sandblom, MD PhD
m +46735521477  Sweden
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the
will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
- Bertrand Russell
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Re: sorted phone directory

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 02.08.2011 um 16:08 schrieb Johan Sandblom:

> Wolfgang, this is what I was hoping for, but there are some problems:
> - the numbers should be flush right
> - in the real file entries are longer than in my example file, but
> none so long as to require a line break.  Here many entries require a
> line break and the next entry runs over the second line of the broken
> entry. See a slightly more realistic example below.
> 
> Gratefully, Johan
> 
> \unexpanded\def\TelefonCommand#1#2#3%
> {\startTelefonEntry{#2}#3\stopTelefonEntry}

\unexpanded\def\TelefonCommand#1#2#3%
  {\maxaligned{#2\hfil#3}\par}

Wolfgang

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Re: sorted phone directory

[Johan Sandblom]

Thank you. Unfortunately I get the following:

Running `LuaConTeXt' on `minimaltele2' with ``context minimaltele2.tex''

mtx-context     | run 1: luatex
--fmt="/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/cont-en"
--lua="/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/cont-en.lui"
--backend="pdf" "./minimaltele2.tex"
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.1-2011051923 (rev 4277)
 \write18 enabled.
(minimaltele2.tex

ConTeXt  ver: 2011.05.18 22:26 MKIV  fmt: 2011.6.25  int: english/english

system          > cont-new.mkiv loaded
(/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv
system          > beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv
)
system          > minimaltele2.top loaded
(minimaltele2.top)
fonts           > latin modern fonts are not preloaded
languages       > language en is active
{/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map}fonts
          > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage)
(/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv)
(/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv){/home/johans/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{/home/johans/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map}
fonts           > virtual math > unable to resolve name mapsfromchar
fonts           > fallback modern rm 12pt is loaded
system          > begin file minimaltele2.tex at line 14
! Undefined control sequence.

system          > tex > error on line 1 in file minimaltele2.tex:
Undefined control sequence ...

 1 >>  \mainlanguage[swedish]
 2
 3     \definedescription
 4      [TelefonEntry]
 5      [width=2em]
 6
 7     %%\unexpanded\def\TelefonCommand#1#2#3%
 8     %% {\startTelefonEntry{#2}#3\stopTelefonEntry}
 9     \unexpanded\def\TelefonCommand#1#2#3%
10       {\maxaligned{#2\hfil#3}\par}
11


\TelefonCommand #1#2#3->\maxaligned
                                    {#2\hfil #3}\par
l.1 ...tingentry{1}{Aölaksd aölksd}{044578264}{}

\doplacelistofsorts ...gparameter \c!method ", })}
                                                  \stoppacked \endgroup
l.25 ...on][criterium=all,command=\TelefonCommand]

?

2011/8/2 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>:
>
> Am 02.08.2011 um 16:08 schrieb Johan Sandblom:
>
>> Wolfgang, this is what I was hoping for, but there are some problems:
>> - the numbers should be flush right
>> - in the real file entries are longer than in my example file, but
>> none so long as to require a line break.  Here many entries require a
>> line break and the next entry runs over the second line of the broken
>> entry. See a slightly more realistic example below.
>>
>> Gratefully, Johan
>>
>> \unexpanded\def\TelefonCommand#1#2#3%
>> {\startTelefonEntry{#2}#3\stopTelefonEntry}
>
> \unexpanded\def\TelefonCommand#1#2#3%
>  {\maxaligned{#2\hfil#3}\par}
>
> Wolfgang
>
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-- 
Johan Sandblom, MD PhD
m +46735521477  Sweden
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the
will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
- Bertrand Russell
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Re: sorted phone directory

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 02.08.2011 um 16:50 schrieb Johan Sandblom:

> Thank you. Unfortunately I get the following:
> 
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> 
> \TelefonCommand #1#2#3->\maxaligned

You can replace “\maxaligned” with “\hbox to \hsize”.

The command is rather new and the ConTeXt version of \line (\hbox to \hsize) from plain TeX.

Wolfgang
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Re: sorted phone directory

[Johan Sandblom]

I updated to no avail. Perhaps I need to get a newer luatex? I also
tried to change \midaligned to \hbox to \hsize and got another
problem. Curiously it is now located on line 4 of the input file
regardless of whethter line 4 is a comment or not.

Johan

Running `LuaConTeXt' on `minimaltele2' with ``context minimaltele2.tex''

mtx-context     | run 1: luatex
--fmt="/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2448223e6631addb83df348d74153606/formats/cont-en"
--lua="/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2448223e6631addb83df348d74153606/formats/cont-en.lui"
--backend="pdf" "./minimaltele2.tex" \stoptext
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.1-2011051923 (rev 4277)
 \write18 enabled.
(minimaltele2.tex

ConTeXt  ver: 2011.07.26 09:17 MKIV  fmt: 2011.8.2  int: english/english

system          > cont-new.mkiv loaded
(/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv
system          > beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv
)
system          > minimaltele2.top loaded
(minimaltele2.top)
fonts           > latin modern fonts are not preloaded
languages       > language en is active
{/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map}fonts
          > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage)
(/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv)
(/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv)
files           > readfile > asked name: 'loc', not found
{/home/johans/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{/home/johans/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map}
fonts           > virtual math > unable to resolve name mapsfromchar
fonts           > fallback modern rm 12pt is loaded
! Undefined control sequence.

system          > tex > error on line 4 in file minimaltele2.tex:
Undefined control sequence ...

 1     \mainlanguage[swedish]
 2
 3     %%\definedescription
 4 >>  %% [TelefonEntry]
 5     %% [width=2em]
 6
 7     %%\unexpanded\def\TelefonCommand#1#2#3%
 8     %% {\startTelefonEntry{#2}#3\stopTelefonEntry}
 9     \unexpanded\def\TelefonCommand#1#2#3%
10       {\hbox to \hsize{#2\hfil#3}\par}
11
12     \definesorting[Telefon][Telefone]
13
14     \starttext

<argument> \fakewords
                      {1}{1}
\TelefonCommand ...#3->\hbox to \hsize {#2\hfil #3
                                                  }\par
l.4 \sortingentry{1}{Ö}{\fakewords {1}{1}}{}

\doplacelistofsorts ...gparameter \c!method ", })}
                                                  \stoppacked \endgroup
l.25 ...on][criterium=all,command=\TelefonCommand]

?

2011/8/2 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>:
>
> Am 02.08.2011 um 16:50 schrieb Johan Sandblom:
>
>> Thank you. Unfortunately I get the following:
>>
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>>
>> \TelefonCommand #1#2#3->\maxaligned
>
> You can replace “\maxaligned” with “\hbox to \hsize”.
>
> The command is rather new and the ConTeXt version of \line (\hbox to \hsize) from plain TeX.
>
> Wolfgang
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>



-- 
Johan Sandblom, MD PhD
m +46735521477  Sweden
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the
will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
- Bertrand Russell
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Re: sorted phone directory

[Johan Sandblom]

Sorry that was my fault for not cleaning up the .tuc-file or some
such. Thank you, now it works perfectly.

Johan

2011/8/2 Johan Sandblom <jsandblom@gmail.com>:
> I updated to no avail. Perhaps I need to get a newer luatex? I also
> tried to change \midaligned to \hbox to \hsize and got another
> problem. Curiously it is now located on line 4 of the input file
> regardless of whethter line 4 is a comment or not.
>
> Johan
>
> Running `LuaConTeXt' on `minimaltele2' with ``context minimaltele2.tex''
>
> mtx-context     | run 1: luatex
> --fmt="/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2448223e6631addb83df348d74153606/formats/cont-en"
> --lua="/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2448223e6631addb83df348d74153606/formats/cont-en.lui"
> --backend="pdf" "./minimaltele2.tex" \stoptext
> This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.1-2011051923 (rev 4277)
>  \write18 enabled.
> (minimaltele2.tex
>
> ConTeXt  ver: 2011.07.26 09:17 MKIV  fmt: 2011.8.2  int: english/english
>
> system          > cont-new.mkiv loaded
> (/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv
> system          > beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv
> )
> system          > minimaltele2.top loaded
> (minimaltele2.top)
> fonts           > latin modern fonts are not preloaded
> languages       > language en is active
> {/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map}fonts
>          > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage)
> (/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv)
> (/home/johans/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv)
> files           > readfile > asked name: 'loc', not found
> {/home/johans/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{/home/johans/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map}
> fonts           > virtual math > unable to resolve name mapsfromchar
> fonts           > fallback modern rm 12pt is loaded
> ! Undefined control sequence.
>
> system          > tex > error on line 4 in file minimaltele2.tex:
> Undefined control sequence ...
>
>  1     \mainlanguage[swedish]
>  2
>  3     %%\definedescription
>  4 >>  %% [TelefonEntry]
>  5     %% [width=2em]
>  6
>  7     %%\unexpanded\def\TelefonCommand#1#2#3%
>  8     %% {\startTelefonEntry{#2}#3\stopTelefonEntry}
>  9     \unexpanded\def\TelefonCommand#1#2#3%
> 10       {\hbox to \hsize{#2\hfil#3}\par}
> 11
> 12     \definesorting[Telefon][Telefone]
> 13
> 14     \starttext
>
> <argument> \fakewords
>                      {1}{1}
> \TelefonCommand ...#3->\hbox to \hsize {#2\hfil #3
>                                                  }\par
> l.4 \sortingentry{1}{Ö}{\fakewords {1}{1}}{}
>
> \doplacelistofsorts ...gparameter \c!method ", })}
>                                                  \stoppacked \endgroup
> l.25 ...on][criterium=all,command=\TelefonCommand]
>
> ?
>
> 2011/8/2 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>:
>>
>> Am 02.08.2011 um 16:50 schrieb Johan Sandblom:
>>
>>> Thank you. Unfortunately I get the following:
>>>
>>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>>>
>>> \TelefonCommand #1#2#3->\maxaligned
>>
>> You can replace “\maxaligned” with “\hbox to \hsize”.
>>
>> The command is rather new and the ConTeXt version of \line (\hbox to \hsize) from plain TeX.
>>
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Re: sorted phone directory

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 02.08.2011 um 17:10 schrieb Johan Sandblom:

> I updated to no avail. Perhaps I need to get a newer luatex? I also
> tried to change \midaligned to \hbox to \hsize and got another
> problem. Curiously it is now located on line 4 of the input file
> regardless of whethter line 4 is a comment or not.

Do you use the \fakewords command in your document?

Wolfgang
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Re: sorted phone directory

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On 08/02/2011 04:08 PM, Johan Sandblom wrote:
> Thank you for your suggestions!
>
> Jaroslav, having the numbers in a separate file and sorting there,
> while possible, would increase overhead in managing the document and
> make it impossible to enter phone numbers at other places in the text.
>
Ultimately, it is of course your decision what you want to do, but I 
think you were a bit quick to reject Jaroslav's suggestion. TeX isn't 
meant to store databases. Having the information in some external file 
will actually make things much easier in the middle and long run. It's 
easier to manage, it scales better, and it will allow you to reuse this 
information in other ways. And ConTeXt is excellent in that it can 
handle many different input formats. I wrote something about using 
databases in xml or sql format in the latest MAPS issue; csv is easy to 
produce (libreoffice calc can produce csv). You could even store the 
information in a raw lua table and then retrieve it via some macros. I 
think the sorting itself should be done in ConTeXt because language 
support for the other solutions is probably not as straightforward (if 
it exists at all), but I would definitely store the information in some 
other format. Again, it is your decision, and of course we don't know 
what special requirements you have, but using some sort of well-known 
format would make your solution much more future-proof.

Good luck

Thomas
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Re: sorted phone directory

[Johan Sandblom]

I attempted to make a more realistic example without divulging names
and numbers. There was no \fakewords in the file that I ran but
apparently still in some auxiliary file with the same name. When I
removed all other files it worked fine.

Johan

2011/8/2 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>:
>
> Am 02.08.2011 um 17:10 schrieb Johan Sandblom:
>
>> I updated to no avail. Perhaps I need to get a newer luatex? I also
>> tried to change \midaligned to \hbox to \hsize and got another
>> problem. Curiously it is now located on line 4 of the input file
>> regardless of whethter line 4 is a comment or not.
>
> Do you use the \fakewords command in your document?
>
> Wolfgang
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Re: sorted phone directory

[Jaroslav Hajtmar]

Hello Johan,
Certainly it is possible to combine solution of Wolfgang with retrieving 
data from an external file without having to sort the data by another 
application. Enough to define a simple ConTeXt macro that contains a 
piece of Lua code. Here my modification of Wolfgang last solution for 
your inspiration:


\def\processexternalfile#1{
\startluacode
   myextfile=io.open('#1',"r")
     repeat
     line=myextfile:read()
       if line ~= nil then
         splitline=string.split(line, ",")
         context('\\Telefon['..splitline[1]..']{'..splitline[2]..'}')
       end
     until (line == nil)
   myextfile:close()
\stopluacode
}


\mainlanguage[swedish]

\definedescription
  [TelefonEntry]
  [width=2em]


\unexpanded\def\TelefonCommand#1#2#3%
   {\hbox to \hsize{#2\hfil#3}\par}


\definesorting[Telefon][Telefone]

\starttext


Wolfgang's solution:

\Telefon[Eldallah Awdawebi]{78423}
\Telefon[Nada Pipidepaulou]{78264}
\Telefon[Aölaksd aölksd]{044578264}
\Telefon[Ö]{320399}
\Telefon[å]{23402394}
\Telefon[åå]{23042}
\Telefon[ååå]{098234}

\startcolumns[n=3]
\placelistofsorts[Telefon][criterium=all,command=\TelefonCommand]
\stopcolumns


\blank[big]


% Create external CSV file "extfile.csv".
% Structure of this file is:

% Eldallah Awdawebi,78423
% Nada Pipidepaulou,78264
% Aölaksd aölksd,044578264
% Ö,320399
% å,23402394
% åå,23042
% ååå,098234


My solution - processing an external file \quotation{extfile.csv}:

\processexternalfile{extfile.csv}


\startcolumns[n=3]
\placelistofsorts[Telefon][criterium=all,command=\TelefonCommand]
\stopcolumns



\stoptext

Best regards
Jaroslav





Dne 2.8.2011 22:05, Thomas A. Schmitz napsal(a):
> On 08/02/2011 04:08 PM, Johan Sandblom wrote:
>> Thank you for your suggestions!
>>
>> Jaroslav, having the numbers in a separate file and sorting there,
>> while possible, would increase overhead in managing the document and
>> make it impossible to enter phone numbers at other places in the text.
>>
> Ultimately, it is of course your decision what you want to do, but I 
> think you were a bit quick to reject Jaroslav's suggestion. TeX isn't 
> meant to store databases. Having the information in some external file 
> will actually make things much easier in the middle and long run. It's 
> easier to manage, it scales better, and it will allow you to reuse 
> this information in other ways. And ConTeXt is excellent in that it 
> can handle many different input formats. I wrote something about using 
> databases in xml or sql format in the latest MAPS issue; csv is easy 
> to produce (libreoffice calc can produce csv). You could even store 
> the information in a raw lua table and then retrieve it via some 
> macros. I think the sorting itself should be done in ConTeXt because 
> language support for the other solutions is probably not as 
> straightforward (if it exists at all), but I would definitely store 
> the information in some other format. Again, it is your decision, and 
> of course we don't know what special requirements you have, but using 
> some sort of well-known format would make your solution much more 
> future-proof.
>
> Good luck
>
> Thomas
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Re: sorted phone directory

[Johan Sandblom]

I agree there may be advantages with a solution involving an external
file. The phone directory is slowly growing, but it has taken it years
to reach one page, so I am not sure the size of the database will ever
be a problem. The current solution works for now, but it is good to be
able to handle external files this way if the need arises.

Thank you for your opinions.

Johan

2011/8/3 Jaroslav Hajtmar <hajtmar@gyza.cz>:
> Hello Johan,
> Certainly it is possible to combine solution of Wolfgang with retrieving
> data from an external file without having to sort the data by another
> application. Enough to define a simple ConTeXt macro that contains a piece
> of Lua code. Here my modification of Wolfgang last solution for your
> inspiration:
>
>
> \def\processexternalfile#1{
> \startluacode
>  myextfile=io.open('#1',"r")
>    repeat
>    line=myextfile:read()
>      if line ~= nil then
>        splitline=string.split(line, ",")
>        context('\\Telefon['..splitline[1]..']{'..splitline[2]..'}')
>      end
>    until (line == nil)
>  myextfile:close()
> \stopluacode
> }
>
>
> \mainlanguage[swedish]
>
> \definedescription
>  [TelefonEntry]
>  [width=2em]
>
>
> \unexpanded\def\TelefonCommand#1#2#3%
>  {\hbox to \hsize{#2\hfil#3}\par}
>
>
> \definesorting[Telefon][Telefone]
>
> \starttext
>
>
> Wolfgang's solution:
>
> \Telefon[Eldallah Awdawebi]{78423}
> \Telefon[Nada Pipidepaulou]{78264}
> \Telefon[Aölaksd aölksd]{044578264}
> \Telefon[Ö]{320399}
> \Telefon[å]{23402394}
> \Telefon[åå]{23042}
> \Telefon[ååå]{098234}
>
> \startcolumns[n=3]
> \placelistofsorts[Telefon][criterium=all,command=\TelefonCommand]
> \stopcolumns
>
>
> \blank[big]
>
>
> % Create external CSV file "extfile.csv".
> % Structure of this file is:
>
> % Eldallah Awdawebi,78423
> % Nada Pipidepaulou,78264
> % Aölaksd aölksd,044578264
> % Ö,320399
> % å,23402394
> % åå,23042
> % ååå,098234
>
>
> My solution - processing an external file \quotation{extfile.csv}:
>
> \processexternalfile{extfile.csv}
>
>
> \startcolumns[n=3]
> \placelistofsorts[Telefon][criterium=all,command=\TelefonCommand]
> \stopcolumns
>
>
>
> \stoptext
>
> Best regards
> Jaroslav
>
>
>
>
>
> Dne 2.8.2011 22:05, Thomas A. Schmitz napsal(a):
>>
>> On 08/02/2011 04:08 PM, Johan Sandblom wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank you for your suggestions!
>>>
>>> Jaroslav, having the numbers in a separate file and sorting there,
>>> while possible, would increase overhead in managing the document and
>>> make it impossible to enter phone numbers at other places in the text.
>>>
>> Ultimately, it is of course your decision what you want to do, but I think
>> you were a bit quick to reject Jaroslav's suggestion. TeX isn't meant to
>> store databases. Having the information in some external file will actually
>> make things much easier in the middle and long run. It's easier to manage,
>> it scales better, and it will allow you to reuse this information in other
>> ways. And ConTeXt is excellent in that it can handle many different input
>> formats. I wrote something about using databases in xml or sql format in the
>> latest MAPS issue; csv is easy to produce (libreoffice calc can produce
>> csv). You could even store the information in a raw lua table and then
>> retrieve it via some macros. I think the sorting itself should be done in
>> ConTeXt because language support for the other solutions is probably not as
>> straightforward (if it exists at all), but I would definitely store the
>> information in some other format. Again, it is your decision, and of course
>> we don't know what special requirements you have, but using some sort of
>> well-known format would make your solution much more future-proof.
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> Thomas
>>
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