Re: "verbatim boxes"

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>]

Am 26.11.2012 um 21:42 schrieb Erik Margraf <erik.margraf@gmail.com>:

> Dear List,
> 
> is there a Context function/macro which enables me to set
> a box with verbatim file input. I.e. something
> similar to :
> 
> \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{\verbatimfileinput{FileName}}


You have to use a \vbox because a \hbox would put everything in a single line.

The important question is why do you want to store the text in a box.

When you plan to frame the text something like this can be used:

\definetyping
  [framedfile]
  [file]
  [before={\startframedtext[width=max]},
    after=\stopframedtext]

\starttext
\typefile[framedfile]{knuth.tex}
\stoptext

To store text and reuse it buffers are the best tool:

\startbuffer[ward]
The Earth, as a habitat for animal life, is in old age and
has a fatal illness. Several, in fact. It would be happening
whether humans had ever evolved or not. But our presence is
like the effect of an old-age patient who smokes many packs
of cigarettes per day – and we humans are the cigarettes.
\stopbuffer

\starttext

\typebuffer[ward]

\getbuffer[ward]

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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