Re: [NTG-context] Making a template, defining a macro

31 Jul 2008


      Thanks a million! Works perfect :-)

Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Demián Gutierrez  
 wrote:
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Hi,
I have to prepare a template to typeset a document that will have a
lot of tables of similar kinds repeated across the document. I want to
put that tables in some kind of templates, so I can use those
templates over and over. So the idea is to hide to the authors all the
format details behind the template allowing them to focus on the data
that has to be filled in those tables (which is the important thing).
So, I would like to define some macros, that allows me to do something like:
\starttableX
  \startSomeField
  Some Field Value...
  \stopSomeField
\startOtherField
  Other Field Value...
  \stopOtherField
\stoptableX
And the result, should be a table like this:
| Some Field Label:  | Some Field Value...  |
| Other Field Label: | Other Field Value... |
That way I define a template for each table type I'll have in the document.
I'm not having trouble with the tables, but with the macro definition,
this is my approximation of what I want (which does not work):
\startsetups crudmain
  \long\def\startguiname #1  
\stopguiname{\setvariables[crudmain][guiname=#1]}
  \long\def\startclassname #1
\stopclassname{\setvariables[crudmain][classname=#1]}
GUI Name: \getvariable{crudmain}{guiname}
Class Name: \getvariable{crudmain}{classname}
\stopsetups
\definestartstop[crudmain][commands=\setups{crudmain}]
\startcrudmain
  \startguiname
  Some name here...
  \stopguiname
  \startclassname
  Other name here...
  \stopclassname
\stopcrudmain
At this point I'm getting this error:
! Use of \startguiname doesn't match its definition.
I want the \long\def\startguiname inside the \startsetups /
\stopsetups to be sure that it will only be called inside the
\startcrudmain / \stopcrudmain (Cause other tables of different types
may have fields with the same name). But even considering the previous
point, if I move the \long\def\startguiname outside the \startsetups /
\stopsetups definition it does not works, because the
\getvariable{crudmain}{guiname} just returns blank.
So is it possible to do what I want or something similar? What would
be a good way to do it? Any advice on the code I've already written?
This is really getting me crazy, cause context is not like any other
programming language I'm used to use ;-)
\def\startcrudmain
  {\bgroup
   \def\startguiname##1\stopguiname
     {\setvalue{crudmain:guiname}{##1}}%
   \def\startclassname##1\stopclassname
     {\setvalue{crudmain:classname}{##1}}}
\def\stopcrudmain
  {\bTABLE[frame=off]%
   \bTR
     \bTD GUI Name: \eTD
     \bTD \getvalue{crudmain:guiname} \eTD
   \eTR
   \bTR
     \bTD Class Name: \eTD
     \bTD \getvalue{crudmain:classname} \eTD
   \eTR
   \eTABLE
   \egroup}
\starttext
\startcrudmain
  \startguiname
  Some name here...
  \stopguiname
  \startclassname
  Other name here...
  \stopclassname
\stopcrudmain
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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