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On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Wybo Dekker wrote:

> I'm trying to write a letter style so that I can say:
>
> \input letter.sty
> \Address{name\\street\\city}
> % ... define several other things...
> \Letter{
> Dear John,
>
> ....
>
> Love, Mary
> }
>
> But the paragraphs in \Letter's argument cause trouble:

I found the solution already: I had to use \long\def instead of \def.
But that introduced another problem: \startlines...\stoplines doesn't work
anymore, for example:

\def\Letter#1{#1}
\starttext
  \Letter{
    \startlines
      abc  % these appear
      def  % on a
      ghi  % single line
    \stoplines
  }
\stoptext

-- 
Wybo