[NTG-context] Re: Better option for a macro with lots of arguments

23 Aug 2023


      On 8/23/2023 4:12 AM, Andres Conrado Montoya wrote:
...
I have been using the following macro to add a bunch of sections to the
start of chapters in a book, it works but I think is kind of weak:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\define[7]\metadatos{
   \startsection[title={Resumen}] #1 \stopsection
   \startsection[title={Palabras clave}] #2 \stopsection
   \start
   \language[en]
   \startsection[title={Abstract}] #3  \stopsection
   \startsection[title={Keywords}] #4 \stopsection
   \stop
   \startsection[title={¿Cómo citar este capítulo? / How to cite this book?}]
     \startsubsection[title={Apa}] #5 \stopsubsection
     \startsubsection[title={Chicago}] #6 \stopsubsection
     \startsubsection[title={MLA}] #7 \stopsubsection
    \stopsection
}
\starttext
% Then I call the macro like this:
\metadatos{spanish abstract \input knuth}{some, comma, separated, keywords,
in, spanish}{english abstract \input knuth}{same, comma, separated,
keywords, in, english}{Apa citation style for this article}{Chicago
citation style for this article}{MLA citation style for this article}
\stoptext
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
I've been exploring different ways to do it better, but with not much luck,
I was thinking something based in key=value assignments? setups? datasets?
Not really sure, but If you know a better solution or point me in the
direction of something I can use to replace that macro, it would be greatly
appreciated.
\startsetups [document:start]
    \doifdocumentvariable {englishabstract} {
      \startsection[title={Resumen}]
        \documentvariable{englishabstract}
      \stopsection
    }
    \doifdocumentvariable {spanisabstract} {
      \startsection[title={Palabras clave}]
        \documentvariable{spanishabstract}
      \stopsection
    }
    ...
\stopsetups
\startbuffer english
    ...
\stopbuffer

\startbuffer spanish
    ...
\stopbuffer


\startsetups [document:stop]
    ...
\stopsetups

	
\startdocument
   [spanisabstract={\getbuffer[spanish]},
    ....]

...

\stopdocument

untested, just keyed in


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