On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 3:17 PM Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:

>
>
> > On 27 Aug 2018, at 14:14, Mikael P. Sundqvist <mickep@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am writing notes for my teaching and would like to do the following
> with modes:
> >
> > * If the file is compiled with context file.tex then everything (i.e.
> the content in all modes) is typeset.
> > * If the file is compiled with context --mode=test1 file.tex then only
> mode test1 is typeset.
> >
> > I do not see how to do this easily.
>
>
> This is what I would do if the list of modes is small:
>
> \doifnotmode{test1}{\enablemode[test1,test2]}
>
> (and don’t use the \definemode lines)
>
> But if you need many of them, that could get problematic with
> many nested \doifmodeelse statements.
>
> In that case, I would use a separate ‘all’ mode, and call the
> context script with that as argument in the generic case.
>
>
> %%% file.tex
> \starttext
> \startmode[test1,all]
> We are in mode test1.
> \stopmode
> \startmode[test2,all]
> We are in mode test2.
> \stopmode
> \stoptext
> %%%
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Taco
>
> Taco Hoekwater
> Elvenkind BV
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Thank you, Taco!

I have around 25 of them, and your solution with "all" works indeed well
for me.

/Mikael