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From: Andres Conrado Montoya <andresconrado@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: [NTG-context] Better option for a macro with lots of arguments
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 21:12:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGhDZhAHMv5kZUYgncXKB0iHV-hv2=wQTwcg65CpOgy-dGXhhg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)


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I have been using the following macro to add a bunch of sections to the
start of chapters in a book, it works but I think is kind of weak:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\define[7]\metadatos{
  \startsection[title={Resumen}] #1 \stopsection
  \startsection[title={Palabras clave}] #2 \stopsection
  \start
  \language[en]
  \startsection[title={Abstract}] #3  \stopsection
  \startsection[title={Keywords}] #4 \stopsection
  \stop
  \startsection[title={¿Cómo citar este capítulo? / How to cite this book?}]
    \startsubsection[title={Apa}] #5 \stopsubsection
    \startsubsection[title={Chicago}] #6 \stopsubsection
    \startsubsection[title={MLA}] #7 \stopsubsection
   \stopsection
}

\starttext
% Then I call the macro like this:
\metadatos{spanish abstract \input knuth}{some, comma, separated, keywords,
in, spanish}{english abstract \input knuth}{same, comma, separated,
keywords, in, english}{Apa citation style for this article}{Chicago
citation style for this article}{MLA citation style for this article}
\stoptext
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

I've been exploring different ways to do it better, but with not much luck,
I was thinking something based in key=value assignments? setups? datasets?
Not really sure, but If you know a better solution or point me in the
direction of something I can use to replace that macro, it would be greatly
appreciated.

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             reply	other threads:[~2023-08-23  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-23  2:12 Andres Conrado Montoya [this message]
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