On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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.

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

Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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

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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.

...

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.

no, there is \setbuffer but in general (at least not in context mkii) buffers are to be defined at the outer level

It's not a real problem but I wanted to know if it is possible to define a environment in the way I wanted.

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2007/1/31, Wolfgang Schuster :

2007/1/31, Hans Hagen :

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Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:05:23 -0500 (EST) Aditya Mahajan < adityam@umich.edu> wrote:

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On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:15:34 -0500 (EST) Aditya Mahajan < adityam@umich.edu> wrote:

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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> 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.

...

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.

no, there is \setbuffer but in general (at least not in context mkii) buffers are to be defined at the outer level

...

It's not a real problem but I wanted to know if it is possible to define a environment in the way I wanted.

Hi Hans,

I looked into core-buf but this was not what I was looking for.

What I want is a command like this:

\def\defineFOO[#1]% {\expandafter\def\csname start#1\endcsname##1\csname stop#1\endcsname% {\startFOO##1\stopFOO}}

and after I wrote

\defineFOO[MYFOO]

I can use the next command

\startMYFOO...\stopMYFOO

Wolfgang

Hi all, I found now a solution for my problem. Thanks for all messages. Wolfgang