Re: [NTG-context] typesetting serial letters in Context

15 Jun 2017

      I still cannot generate letters from my xml database, although there is apparently a solution to use csv files through lua code (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/72735/how-to-create-form-letters-fro... https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/72735/how-to-create-form-letters-fro...).

Your help is much appreciated!

Yet I found out how to generate certificates with backgrounds changing according to the candidate's course level, which I would like to share with you:

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participants.xml

<contacts>
<contact>
<formalname>Janssen</formalname>
<informalname>Piet</informalname>
<initials>P.</initials>
<courselevel>levelA</courselevel>
<coursedate>1 june 2017</coursedate>
<city>Nijmegen</city>
</contact>
</contacts>

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certificates.tex

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape]
\setuplayout[width=170mm,topspace=60mm,rightmargindistance=2.5mm]
\definelayer[module][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight,preset=middle]
\useexternalfigure[levelA][sjablonen/CourseLevelA.pdf]
\resetlayer[level]{}

\setupbackgrounds[page][background={level}]

\startxmlsetups xml:setups
	\xmlsetsetup{#1}{contacts}{xml:contacts}
	\xmlsetsetup{#1}{contact}{xml:contacts:contact}
\stopxmlsetups

\xmlregistersetup{xml:setups}

\startxmlsetups xml:contacts
     \xmlflush{#1}
\stopxmlsetups

\startxmlsetups xml:contacts:contact
	\setlayer[module][][]{\externalfigure[\xmltext{#1}{/courselevel}][factor=550]}

	\startalignment [middle]
	\color[red]{{\tfd \xmltext{#1}{/initials}} {\tfd \xmltext{#1}{/formalname}}\par

	\blank[10mm]

	{\ss \xmltext{#1}{/city}, \xmltext{#1}{/coursedate}}

	\stopalignment
	\page[yes]
\stopxmlsetups

\starttext
\xmlprocessfile{main}{./participants.xml}{}

\stoptext

Kind regards,

Robert
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Op 13 jun. 2017, om 15:59 heeft r.ermers@hccnet.nl het volgende geschreven:
I can take the information out of the nodes. The main problem is to use them in a layout and in a sequences other the one they appear in the xml data file.
In the current (mkii) file I have something like this: \midaligned{\XMLflush{formalname}, \XMLflush{informalname}}.
Another point on my wishlist is to change the background of the certificate depending on the type of certificate. In mkii I manage to do this as follows:
File: participants.xml
<contacts>
<contact>
<formalname>Janssen</formalname>
<informalname>Piet</informalname>
<courselevel>levelA</courselevel>
</contact>
</contacts>
certificates.tex:
\resetlayer[module]{}
\setlayer[module][][]{\externalfigure[\XMLflush{courselevel}[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]}
\useexternalfigure[levelA][sjablonen/backgroundlevelA.pdf]
Help is very much appreciated!
Robert
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Op 13 jun. 2017, om 09:53 heeft luigi scarso  het volgende geschreven:
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:40 AM,   wrote:
...
Hello all,
I have been using Context mkii with the x-corres.mkii module for a number of years now, for many different purposes (mailings, certificates, etc). The module works with an xml (actually rng) file with the following structure:
<contacts>

              <formalname>Janssen</formalname>
              <informalname>Piet</informalname>
      </contact>
</contacts>
The contents of each item is grabbed and put in the document by means of the command \XMLflush{formalname}.
I would like to shift to mkiv now with all its possibilities.
Yet there is no x-corres.mkiv. Who can help me out?
I don't remember x-corres.mkiv, but
mkiv has a guide
tex/texmf-context/doc/context/documents/general/manuals/xml-mkiv.pdf
-- 
luigi
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Re: [NTG-context] typesetting serial letters in Context

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