Hi Hans, Nice code Hans!… But somehow your replacer code gives always « el » even in front of « señora »… It seems that your lua code for replacer sees « señor » and does not check whether it is « señora » or not. If one modifies a little bit the code into the following, the issue is solved: (changing « señora » into « senora ») %%%%%%%%%%% \startluacode local replacer = lpeg.replacer { ["senora"] = "la señora", ["señor"] = "el señor", } function document.MaleOrFemale(str) context(lpeg.match(replacer,str)) end \stopluacode \unexpanded\def\MaleOrFemale#1% {\ctxlua{document.MaleOrFemale("#1")}} \starttext whatever \MaleOrFemale{señor Juan Martínez} and \MaleOrFemale{senora María Pérez} \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%% Is it possible to have your replacer check the entire first words? Best regards: OK

On 26 Jan 2015, at 18:43, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 1/26/2015 5:49 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

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Dear list,

I have the following sample:

\starttext

\def\Persona{señor Juan Martínez} \def\Persona{señora María Pérez}

El/La \Persona\ ha aprobado. \stoptext

How can I replace "El/La" in text with a command that can assign the proper article?

I could use the translate module, but the real case is more complex than the previous sample.

What I need in the command is that it can check the first word in the command \Persona and assign "el" or "la".

Which is the right way to do this?

\startluacode

local replacer = lpeg.replacer { ["señor"] = "el señor", ["señora"] = "la señora", }

function document.MaleOrFemale(str) context(lpeg.match(replacer,str)) end

\stopluacode

\unexpanded\def\MaleOrFemale#1% {\ctxlua{document.MaleOrFemale("#1")}}

\starttext

whatever \MaleOrFemale{señor Juan Martínez} and \MaleOrFemale{señora María Pérez}

\stoptext

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On 1/26/2015 10:04 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

On 01/26/2015 09:24 PM, Otared Kavian wrote:

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Hi Hans,

Nice code Hans!… But somehow your replacer code gives always « el » even in front of « señora »… It seems that your lua code for replacer sees « señor » and does not check whether it is « señora » or not. If one modifies a little bit the code into the following, the issue is solved: (changing « señora » into « senora ») %%%%%%%%%%% \startluacode

local replacer = lpeg.replacer { ["senora"] = "la señora", ["señor"] = "el señor", }

Many thanks for your replies, Hans and Otared.

Adding a blank space after “señor” and “señora” is also a workaround for this particular issue:

local replacer = lpeg.replacer { ["señora "] = "la señora ", ["señor "] = "el señor ", }

How can I specify that the replacer takes not only strings but complete words?

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