From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: New to TeX, ConTeXt - How to conditionally include document sections?
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:10:24 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0907231705390.22549@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73D5696F6096F9478FA4CA43E2FD99B96E245934@mail6.millersville.edu>
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Stephen Gadsby wrote:
> Please pardon my newness to TeX, ConTeXt, and this list. If I violate
> list etiquette, I apologize and hope you will let me know. Thank you.
Don't worry. Newbie questions are welcome here.
> I'm attempting to abandon the use of Word for a maintaining a growing
> set of 30 to 60 page documents that provide information on similar, but
> not identical, equipment at a range of locations. My idea was to create
> one ConTeXt project that, depending upon the definition of one string in
> the project file, appropriately adjusts the resulting document's title
> and pulls in component "foo" for location "A", "bar" for location "B",
> etc.
>
> My problem is, after playing with if, ifx, and ifcase for some time and
> digging through all the ConTeXt and TeX documentation I can find, I'm
> still not understanding how to accomplish the TeX/ConTeXt equivalent of:
>
> if <string in variable> equals <string> then
> do thing 1
> ...
> do thing n
> else if...
ConTeXt has a mechanism called modes that does exactly this. The official
documentation is a bit terse, but should give you enough hints to get
started.
http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mmodes.pdf
There are also some hints on the wiki page:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modes
> If someone would please point me to documentation or an example of how
> to accomplish string comparison based if-thens in ConTeXt, I'd greatly
> appreciate it.
For what you want, modes should be sufficient. If for something else you
really want to do string comparisons, ConTeXt provides a bunch of
\doifelse commands
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros/Branches_and_Decisions
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-23 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-23 20:25 Stephen Gadsby
2009-07-23 20:34 ` Hans Hagen
2009-07-23 21:10 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2009-07-24 13:36 ` Stephen Gadsby
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