From: Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: command to process CSV file (database module)
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2023 19:00:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6a75e41-64dd-1f5e-9b44-6344c0ccd47f@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3fea5631-1466-69c5-e2fe-be95e0599786@gmx.es>
On 11/5/23 13:56, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
> [...]
> I get an error about an unexpected symbol near "\" in the line of
> "\processdatabasefile".
>
> Could anyone enlighten me about what I am missing here?
Replying to myself, thanks to the wiki
(https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Commands_with_optional_arguments).
It seems that the command has to be defined as unexpanded, such as in:
\setupinteraction[state=start]
\setupattachments[method=hidden]
\usemodule[database]
\starttext
\unexpanded\def\ItemContents#1#2#3{\doiftext{#2}
{\item {\em #1}\attachment[file=#2, name=\currentitemnumber-#2]%
\doiftext{#3}{ (also available at #3)}}}
\defineseparatedlist
[test]
[separator={,},
quotechar={"},
before={\startitemize[n]},after={\stopitemize},
first={\ItemContents},last={.},
left={\{},right={\}}]
\processdatabasefile[test][context-documents.csv]
\stoptext
It is not clear for me why is this needed, but it might be one of the
many aspects of expansion that average users cannot understand from TeX.
Many thanks for your help,
Pablo
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