Re: [NTG-context] creating environments

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:05:23 -0500 (EST) Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:15:34 -0500 (EST) Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Hi all,

I have a module with a envrionment defined in the following way:

\def\startFOO#1\stopFOO{...#1...}

I try currently to write a command \defineFOO[MYFOO] that expands to my already created environment.

\startMYFOO#1\stopMYFOO -> \startFOO#1\stopFOO

I know it is possible to make this in the following way:

\def\startMYFOO#1\stopMYFOO{\startFOO#1\stopFOO}

but this not what I want.

Something like this

\def\defineFOO[#1]% {\setvalue{\c!start#1}{\startFOO} \setvalue{\c!stop#1} {\stopFOO}}

Hi Aditya,

this can only be used if you define your environment in this way:

\def\startFOO{...} \def\stopFoo{...}

I defined my environment in this way:

\def\startFOO#1\stopFOO{...}

This means TeX reads everything from \startFOO till \stopFOO and looks afterwards at the replacement text.

I am not sure how something like that you work.

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I used tried the first way with saving the content into a buffer and using the buffer content.

If you want to write to a buffer and later use it, there are low level macros to define your own buffer commands. Have a look at the R module to see an example. Depending on your usage, you will have to keep track of the buffer numbers on your own.

Aditya

Hi Aditya, I tried to use a buffer but you cannot make something like this: \starttext \placefigure {} {\startbuffer{mybuffer} Floating text from a buffer \stopbuffer \getbuffer{mybuffer}} \stoptext with content saved in a buffer. It's not a real problem but I wanted to know if it is possible to define a environment in the way I wanted. Wolfgang