From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: setupblock with starttyping doesn't work
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:47:56 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1301311146230.8820@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <510A8D8B.3060702@wxs.nl>
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 1/31/2013 4:07 PM, Ingo Hohmann wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> this is my first post to this mailing list. I have played a little bit
>> with latex and context before, and now I am trying context for real.
>>
>> To get a feel for it, I am setting up a letter style for my self, and
>> some problems are showing up now.
>>
>> So here it goes ...
>>
>> What I want to accomplish:
>>
>> The user writes the address, and he should not have to use \crlf or have
>> to use several distinct commands.
>>
>> Why does the following not work?
>>
>>
>> \defineblock[Address]
>> \setupblock[Address][
>> before=\starttyping,
>> after=\stoptyping
>> ]
>
> you pick the two more complex mechanisms .. the ones that intercept the input
> stream
>
> \setupblock[Address][
> before=\startlines\tt,
> after=\stoplines,
> ]
>
> will work ok for most text cases
>
>
>> \starttext
>> \beginAddress
>> Peter Pan
>> Somewhere over the Rainbow
>> Neverland
>> \endAddress
>>
>> \useblocks[Address]
>>
>> Some more text.
>>
>> \stoptext
And if you really need a typing environment, you can use buffers:
\startbuffer[address]
#whatver&
\stopbuffer
\getbuffer[address]
or
\typebuffer[address]
Aditya
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-31 15:07 Ingo Hohmann
2013-01-31 15:28 ` Hans Hagen
2013-01-31 16:47 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2013-02-01 19:41 ` Ingo Hohmann
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