From: "Jairo A. del Rio" <jairoadelrio6@gmail.com>
To: Angel M Alganza <ama@ugr.es>,
mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Loop?
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:50:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKyqqaYDf65DUoEajgJh9KOtt2TwmXAAfyA6tRMjLeS0EpmwDQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210212183905.GG6275@zombi.ugr.es>
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Hi, Ángel. Like this?
\def\mylist{Fulano,Mengano,Sutano}
\def\mycommand#1{#1\blank{\red Something here}\blank}
\starttext
\processcommacommand[\mylist]\mycommand
\stoptext
There are better ways to deal with data in ConTeXt, but it's basically that
way, I think.
Jairo
El vie, 12 de feb. de 2021 a la(s) 13:44, Angel M Alganza (ama@ugr.es)
escribió:
> Hello:
>
> I am trying to print a list of names always followed by the same info
> (generated by a new command). At the moment, I have all the names
> followed by the command like so:
>
> Person Number One
> \mycommand
> Person Number Two
> \mycommand
> Person Number Three
> \mycommand
> Person Number Four
> \mycommand
> Person Number Five
> \mycommand
> .
> .
> .
>
> I'd rather have the list of people stored somewhere (a list? an array?)
> and loop through it and then inserting \mynewcommand at compilation
> time. That way, when I need to replace the list of people with a new
> one, I'd just do that instead of building the above structure again and
> again.
>
> Is it possible to do that with just ConTeXt or would I need to resort to
> Lua. I guess it should be possible both ways, but I haven't figure out
> how to do it. Any pointer, please?
>
> Thank you so much in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> Ángel
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-12 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-12 18:39 Loop? Angel M Alganza
2021-02-12 18:50 ` Loop? Thomas A. Schmitz
2021-02-12 18:50 ` Jairo A. del Rio [this message]
2021-02-12 18:52 ` Loop? Jairo A. del Rio
2021-02-12 19:25 ` Loop? Wolfgang Schuster
2021-02-12 19:48 ` Loop? Jairo A. del Rio
2021-02-13 10:42 ` Loop? Angel M Alganza
2021-02-13 11:12 ` Loop? Wolfgang Schuster
2021-02-13 13:23 ` Loop? Angel M Alganza
2021-02-13 13:39 ` Loop? Hans Hagen
2021-02-12 19:49 ` Loop? Angel M Alganza
2021-02-12 19:57 ` Loop? Jairo A. del Rio
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