[NTG-context] Re: serial letters

11 Nov 2024


      Interesting question. You can use an xml database in which you collect your contacts and how to address them. I have been doing this for over 20 years now. Try this for a single letter:

\startxmlsetups xml:setups
\xmlfilter{#1}{contact[@label=‘labelMaryDoe']/command(xml:contact)}
\xmlsetsetup{#1}{prefix|email|initials|address|city|telephone|information|internet|prov|informalname|formalname|telephone||formalname|mobiletelephone}{xml:*}
\stopxmlsetups

\xmlregistersetup{xml:setups}
\setuplettersection[content][alternative=setups]
\startsetups[letter:section:content]
\readtexfile{./letter-to-mycontacts.tex}{}
\stopsetups

\startxmlsetups xml:contact
    \setupletter
      [toaddress={\switchtobodyfont[reset,10pt]\xmltext{#1}{/address/(bn|nm|st|pz|p)/command(xml:p)}
      {\switchtobodyfont[reset,kixbarc,9pt]\xmltext{#1}{/kix}}},
         opening={Dear  \xmltext{#1}{/prefix} \xmltext{#1}{/formalname},},
         closing={Kind regards,},
         subject={Subject: How to write interesting letters},
         signature={Joseph Doe,
         \setupitemize[before=\tfx]
         {\startitemize[blacktriangle,joinedup,packed,nowhite,text]
          \item Brother of John Doe
          \stopitemize
         }}]
\relax
\placeletter
\stopxmlsetups
\setuppagenumbering [state=stop]
\starttext
\xmlprocessfile{contacts}{myaddresses.xml}{}
\stoptext

00000
my addresses.xml:

<contacts>
<contact  label='labelMaryDoe'>
<initials>M.</initials>
<formalname>Doe</formalname>
<informalname>Mary</informalname>
<prefix>Mrs</prefix>
<telephone>010-12343243</telephone>
<address>
<p>Organisation</p>
<p>T.a.v. Mrs. M. Doe</p>
<p>Long Alley</p>
<p>Shortby</p>
</address>
<email>m.doe@organisation.com</email>
<information>sent letter in 2024.</information>
</contact>
</contacts>
...
Op 11 nov 2024, om 14:46 heeft juh+ntg-context--- via ntg-context  het volgende geschreven:
Dear all,
using this example below from 2019 to make a serial letter I get three pages.
The second letter is split on page 2 and 3.
Are there any new approaches to make serial letters?
TIA
juh
Am 09.04.19 um 21:38 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
...
\usemodule[letter]
\setuplettersection
  [opening]
  [alternative=setups]
\startsetups [letter:section:opening]
  \doifelse{\getvariable{address}{sex}}{male}
    {Dear Sir,}
    {Dear Madam,}
\stopsetups
\setvariable{address}{set}{\placeletter}
\starttext
\startlettercontent
\unknown
\stoplettercontent
\setvariables
  [address]
  [name=John,
   sex=male]
\setvariables
  [address]
  [name=Anna,
   sex=female]
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] Re: serial letters

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