* To \getbuffer or to \input: which one is it better?
@ 2018-02-10 15:10 Otared Kavian
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From: Otared Kavian @ 2018-02-10 15:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi all,
In a project using the \setvariables command of ConTeXt, a file containing more than 200 instances of a structure resembling (but with much more fields…)
\setvariables[talk]
[speaker={Dr Some Speaker},
title={Some title},
room={Some Room},
]
is input several times, in order to extract from these variables one or more informations to be typeset, for different types of documents. However I don’t know whether this is a wise solution, or is it better to define once and for all a buffer and then use the \getbuffer command for each of the different uses in my global document.
For now, unfortunately, I cannot come up with a minimal example because the question I am asking is about a real situation where nothing is minimal. That is why I am asking a general abstract question to understand the general philosophy underlining the buffer commands versus the \input command.
Thanks in advance for any hint: OK
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* Re: To \getbuffer or to \input: which one is it better? [not found] ` <A462E411-1306-4E12-88B7-54A1AABC27F7@gmail.com> @ 2018-02-11 11:51 ` Hans Hagen 2018-02-11 13:17 ` Aditya Mahajan 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Hans Hagen @ 2018-02-11 11:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Otared Kavian, mailing list for ConTeXt users On 2/11/2018 8:49 AM, Otared Kavian wrote: > On 10 Feb 2018, at 17:56, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote: >> >> On 2/10/2018 4:10 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: >>> […] >> buffers are quite efficient as they never see the file system while input reads the file each time .. both are fresh reads so they obey catcode changes (different interpretations of characters) >> >> there might be more efficient ways for your case but without an example that's guessing > > Hi Hans, > > Thank you very much for your attention and your explanations about buffers. > > I send below a working example showing what I wish to do: to extract from a data buffer some informations to be typeset separately according to some criteria. Maybe I am using the buffer where the data is stored inappropriately, but I can obtain what I want. > > However if a sorting were necessary, then my approach would not work…. Is it possible to sort the buffer containing the data according to some key? Think different ... see end. > Best regards: OK > > %% begin setvariable-getbuffer.tex > \startbuffer[talkdata] > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > \setvariables[talk]% > [speakername={Gauss}, > title={Remarks on Number Theory}, > time={8am}, > room={B}, > day={Monday}, > ] > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > \setvariables[talk]% > [speakername={Ampère}, > title={What is Magnetism}, > time={10am}, > room={A}, > day={Monday}, > ] > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > \setvariables[talk]% > [speakername={Dirac}, > title={Quaternions and the wave equation}, > time={11am}, > room={B}, > day={Tuesday}, > ] > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > \stopbuffer > > % we define what is to be typeset for each day > \define[1]\talksofday{% > \expdoif{\getvariable{talk}{day}}{#1}{% > \starttabulate[|f{\bi}l|p|][before=]% > \NC Speaker \EQ \getvariable{talk}{speakername} \NC\NR > \NC Title \EQ \getvariable{talk}{title} \NC\NR > \NC Location and Time \EQ Room \getvariable{talk}{room}, > at \getvariable{talk}{time} \NC\NR > \HL > \stoptabulate > } > } > > % we define what is to be typeset for each room > \define[1]\talksofroom{% > \expdoif{\getvariable{talk}{room}}{#1}{ > \starttabulate[|f{\bi}l|p|][before=]% > \NC Speaker \EQ \getvariable{talk}{speakername} \NC\NR > \NC Title \EQ \getvariable{talk}{title} \NC\NR > \NC Day and Time \EQ \getvariable{talk}{day}, at \getvariable{talk}{time} \NC\NR > \HL > \stoptabulate > } > } > > \starttext > > \starttitle[title={Monday talks}] > \setvariable{talk}{set}{\talksofday{Monday}} > \getbuffer[talkdata] > \stoptitle > \page > > \starttitle[title={Tuesday talks}] > \setvariable{talk}{set}{\talksofday{Tuesday}} > \getbuffer[talkdata] > \stoptitle > \page > > \starttitle[title={Talks in room B}] > \setvariable{talk}{set}{\talksofroom{B}} > \getbuffer[talkdata] > \stoptitle > > \stoptext > %% end setvariable-getbuffer.tex \startluacode -- document.speakerdata = table.load("somefile.lua") -- -- with somefile.lue: return { ... } document.speakerdata = { { speakername = "Gauss", title = "Remarks on Number Theory", time = "8am", room = "B", day = "Monday", }, { speakername = "Ampère", title = "What is Magnetism", time = "10am", room = "A", day = "Monday", }, { speakername = "Dirac", title = "Quaternions and the wave equation", time = "11am", room = "B", day = "Tuesday", }, } \stopluacode \startluacode document.talksofday = function(how) local data = document.speakerdata if how == "speakername" then local sort = { } for i=1,#data do sort[i] = data[i] end table.sort(sort,function(a,b) return a.speakername < b.speakername end) data = sort end context.starttabulate { "|f{\\bi}l|p|" } context.HL() for i=1,#data do local d = data[i] context.NC() context("Speaker") context.EQ() context(d.speakername) context.NC() context.NR() context.NC() context("Title") context.EQ() context(d.title) context.NC() context.NR() context.NC() context("Location and Time") context.EQ() context("Room %s at %s",d.room,d.time) context.NC() context.NR() context.HL() end context.stoptabulate() end \stopluacode \starttext \starttitle[title={Monday talks}] \ctxlua{document.talksofday()} \stoptitle \starttitle[title={Monday talks}] \ctxlua{document.talksofday("speakername")} \stoptitle \starttitle[title={Monday talks}] \ctxlua{document.talksofday()} \stoptitle \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: To \getbuffer or to \input: which one is it better? 2018-02-11 11:51 ` Hans Hagen @ 2018-02-11 13:17 ` Aditya Mahajan 2018-02-11 16:52 ` Hans Hagen 2018-02-13 8:09 ` Otared Kavian 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Aditya Mahajan @ 2018-02-11 13:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users [-- Attachment #1: Type: TEXT/PLAIN, Size: 1030 bytes --] On Sun, 11 Feb 2018, Hans Hagen wrote: > Think different ... see end. > > \startluacode > > document.speakerdata = { > { > speakername = "Gauss", > title = "Remarks on Number Theory", > time = "8am", > room = "B", > day = "Monday", > }, > { > speakername = "Ampère", > title = "What is Magnetism", > time = "10am", > room = "A", > day = "Monday", > }, > { > speakername = "Dirac", > title = "Quaternions and the wave equation", > time = "11am", > room = "B", > day = "Tuesday", > }, > } > > \stopluacode I prefer starting with XML and converting it to a lua table using helper functions. The advantage of XML is that you can verify the data using an RNC schema. Aditya [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 492 bytes --] ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: To \getbuffer or to \input: which one is it better? 2018-02-11 13:17 ` Aditya Mahajan @ 2018-02-11 16:52 ` Hans Hagen 2018-02-13 8:09 ` Otared Kavian 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Hans Hagen @ 2018-02-11 16:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ntg-context On 2/11/2018 2:17 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2018, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> Think different ... see end. >> >> \startluacode >> >> document.speakerdata = { >> { >> speakername = "Gauss", >> title = "Remarks on Number Theory", >> time = "8am", >> room = "B", >> day = "Monday", >> }, >> { >> speakername = "Ampère", >> title = "What is Magnetism", >> time = "10am", >> room = "A", >> day = "Monday", >> }, >> { >> speakername = "Dirac", >> title = "Quaternions and the wave equation", >> time = "11am", >> room = "B", >> day = "Tuesday", >> }, >> } >> >> \stopluacode > > I prefer starting with XML and converting it to a lua table using helper > functions. The advantage of XML is that you can verify the data using an > RNC schema. i must admit that i never validate xml .. probably also because most xml we get is invalid or has element abuse anyway so one has to look into what one gets and act upon interferences Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: To \getbuffer or to \input: which one is it better? 2018-02-11 13:17 ` Aditya Mahajan 2018-02-11 16:52 ` Hans Hagen @ 2018-02-13 8:09 ` Otared Kavian 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Otared Kavian @ 2018-02-13 8:09 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users > On 11 Feb 2018, at 14:17, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2018, Hans Hagen wrote: > […] > > I prefer starting with XML and converting it to a lua table using helper functions. The advantage of XML is that you can verify the data using an RNC schema. Hi Aditya, Thanks for your input. Since, to say the least, I am more than very limited in programming, I am not yet able to explore the XML approach your are suggesting. But once I have done some progress in using Lua + ConTeXt as Hans has shown me, I’ll try to explore also the XML approach, since it might be interesting to have a version for webpages of the document I am preparing. Best regards: OK ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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