Stephen Gadsby wrote:
Good day,
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.
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...
I've repeatedly come across information on ifthenelse in LaTeX, and in some quick tests, it does appear to do exactly what I want. However, while I've admittedly only played with LaTeX for a few hours, it seems to make specifying exact formatting somewhat difficult. As I'll be turning these documents into PDFs myself, rather than sending them off to a publisher, that's a concern for me.
\doifelse{stringa}{stringb}{...}{...} in mkiv: syst-aux.mkiv, in mkii: syst-gen.mkii cum suis .. or search the wiki for "doif"
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. Thank you.
-Stephen J. Gadsby, Multimedia Specialist Web & Multimedia Services, Information Technology Millersville University of Pennsylvania, USA ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
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