From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@freedom.nl>
Subject: Re: Problem with \stoptabulate
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 09:35:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8e7cad1-bae1-31ed-301f-27a8b215d6fd@freedom.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C49F1978-6FDA-4E47-BF90-82454DF25857@scorecrow.com>
On 3/21/2023 12:34 AM, Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context wrote:
> I have a technical manual style document that requires a lot of examples to be included.
>
> They can easily be typeset with a table so I thought I would save myself some typing by defining macros for the various bits of a tabulate table. Thus I have:
>
> \def\startMyExample{\starttabulate[|r|c|l|p|]}
> \def\stopMyExample{\stoptabulate}
> \def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR}
>
> \starttext
> Here are some examples...
>
> \startMyExample
> \MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after}
> \MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin}
> \stopMyExample
> %\stoptabulate
>
> \stoptext
>
> The problem is that \stopMyExample doesn't work - the \stoptabulate isn't recognised and I get an end of file reached error. If use a straight \stoptabulate then it works as expected. That's fine but it would be nice, from an aesthetic point of view, to have start & stop 'paired' commands in the source.
>
> Presumably some sort of deep ConTeXt fu is going on - can anyone explain it please?
\definetabulate[MyExample][|r|c|l|p|]
\def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR}
\startMyExample
\MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after}
\MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin}
\stopMyExample
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-20 23:34 Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context
2023-03-21 5:23 ` jbf via ntg-context
2023-03-21 11:06 ` Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context
2023-03-21 11:32 ` Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context
2023-03-21 8:35 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
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