Dear Context’ers, I am trying to use the letter module in mkiv for typesetting serial letters from an xml database. Thanks, Thomas for looking into this. I appreciate it very much. Yet I don’t know either whether I actually need the letter module, but it seemed reasonable to try this first. Today I tried to insert some simple luatex code which I found on another forum. The results are promising: a. The address appears. b. The salutation + formalname also appear. Yet there are some problems: 1. the address elements appear in one line, not underneath as desired, 2. When I add text such as Knuth or references to the database, Context stops. See the code below. My question at this point is: how can I proceed? Do I actually need the letter module? Kind regards, Robert \usemodule[letter] \starttext \startbuffer[participants] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <document> <contacts> <contact class='participant' label='Hendriks'> <formalname>Hendriks</formalname> <informalname>Karel</informalname> <prefix>mr.</prefix> <initials>K.</initials> <courselevel>levelA</courselevel> <coursedate>1 june 2017</coursedate> <city>Arnhem</city> <address> <p>Mr. K. Hendriks</p> <p>Grotestraat 5</p> <p>1234 Arnhem</p> </address> </contact> <contact class='participant' label='Janssen'> <formalname>Janssen</formalname> <informalname>Piet</informalname> <initials>P.</initials> <prefix>mr.</prefix> <courselevel>levelA</courselevel> <coursedate>1 june 2017</coursedate> <city>Nijmegen</city> <address> <p>Mr. P. Janssen</p> <p>Kortestraat 8</p> <p>1234 Nijmegen</p> </address> </contact> </contacts> </document> \stopbuffer \startxmlsetups xml:setups \xmlsetsetup{#1}{contacts|contact|address|prefix}{xml:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:setups} \startxmlsetups xml:contacts \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:p \xmlflush{#1} \par \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:contact \defineletterelement[layer][address][example]% {\correspondenceparameter{toname}\\ \correspondenceparameter{toaddress} \par} \setupletterlayer[address][alternative=example] \startletter [opening={{Dear \xmltext{#1}{/prefix} \xmltext{#1}{/formalname},}}, closing={Kind regards,}, signature={Sender}, toaddress={{\xmltext{#1}{/address}}}, subject={Interesting offer}] %\input knuth %{\xmltext{#1}{/informalname}} %\xmltext{#1}{/address/p} \stopletter \stopxmlsetups \startluacode userdata = userdata or { } userdata.letter = { } \stopluacode \xmlprocessbuffer{main}{participants}{} \stoptext

Op 18 jun. 2017, om 17:33 heeft Thomas A. Schmitz het volgende geschreven:

On 06/15/2017 11:58 PM, r.ermers@hccnet.nl wrote:

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Thusfar I have been trying to use the letter module with the xmltext and xmlflush commands. What can be done to make this work? Thanks!

I'm sorry, I don't use the letter module and don't have it installed. As far as I can see, your way of using the xml commands is correct. There appears to be some sort of incompatibility between the letter module and xml, but I guess only Wolfgang (the author of the module) can really say what's going on. If you want to typeset simple letters, maybe you can bypass the module?

Thomas