Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \stoptabulate

21 Mar 2023

      Sorry everyone, ignore me, it doesn't work.

(Got my test files mixed up - aargh!)
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On 21 Mar 2023, at 11:06, Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context  wrote:
Thanks Julian - I tried a startstop environment originally but it didn't work.
The answer turns out to be trivial - just needed to use \long\def for \stoptabulate so the following appears to work:
\def\startMyExample{\starttabulate[|r|c|l|p|]}
\long\def\stopMyExample{\stoptabulate}  %% long def required here
\def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR}
\starttext
Here are some examples...
\startMyExample
 \MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after}
 \MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin}
\stoptabulate
\stoptext
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On 21 Mar 2023, at 05:23, jbf via ntg-context  wrote:
Not sure if this helps, Bruce, but there is \definestartstop
Julian
On 21/3/23 10:34, Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context wrote:
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I have a technical manual style document that requires a lot of examples to be included.
They can easily be typeset with a table so I thought I would save myself some typing by defining macros for the various bits of a tabulate table. Thus I have:
\def\startMyExample{\starttabulate[|r|c|l|p|]}
\def\stopMyExample{\stoptabulate}
\def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR}
\starttext
Here are some examples...
\startMyExample
 \MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after}
 \MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin}
\stopMyExample
%\stoptabulate
\stoptext
The problem is that \stopMyExample doesn't work - the \stoptabulate isn't recognised and I get an end of file reached error. If use a straight \stoptabulate then it works as expected. That's fine but it would be nice, from an aesthetic point of view, to have start & stop 'paired' commands in the source.
Presumably some sort of deep ConTeXt fu is going on - can anyone explain it please?
Regards,
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Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, UK
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