Hi,

Aren’t environments used for setups (and not for textual content). Maybe a buffer may be what you want ?

https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/startbuffer

Best,

Denis

Von: Jeroen <contextntg@gmail.com>
Gesendet: Montag, 4. März 2024 06:15
An: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Betreff: [NTG-context] Re: Local alternative to \input

With a single environment it seems to work, though when I expand it to multiple, it does not seem to work anymore

\starttext

SomeText \\
\environment aaa \\
SomeText \\
\environment bbb \\
SomeText \\

\startenvironment aaa
\samplefile{lorem}
\stopenvironment

\startenvironment bbb
\samplefile{tufte}
\stopenvironment

\stoptext

Op do 4 jan 2024 om 20:14 schreef Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>:

Am 04.01.24 um 18:00 schrieb Jeroen:
> I just would like to have a lot of mark-up for combined figures and
> tables etc moved out of the way, similar to this. I am loosing the
> general documetn flow because of all this markup. Would there be a
> construction similar to this:
>
> \starttext
>
> \environment foo
> \environment bar
>
> \startenvironment foo
> this is a lot of text
> \stopenvironment
>
> \startenvironment bar
> and this is another piece of text
> \stopenvironment
>
> \stoptext

An environment is a separate file.
\environment is like \input with a few more checks, e.g. it loads the
file only once.

e.g.

-- file "env_foo.tex" --
\startenvironment env_foo
% settings
\stopenvironment
--


-- file document.tex --
\environment env_foo

\starttext
% whatever
\stoptext
--

Instead of the call within your document, you can also call

context --environment=env_foo.tex document

(Usually that makes only sense in XML workflows.)

Hraban
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