On 30 Jan 2018, at 15:54, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Use the command key which grabs the content of each column as argument (i.e. your commands needs as many arguments as your table has columns):

\defineseparatedlist [seplisttalk] [separator={;}, command=\maketalk]

Thanks Wolfgang! That fixes the issues concerning the entries which are text, but now the filename is not understood by the command \maketalk: here is the modified code: %% begin database-command.tex \usemodule[database] \starttext \startbuffer[pagetalk] \starttabulate[|f{\bi}l|p|][before=]% \NC Speaker \EQ \goto{{\sc \getvariable{talk}{speakername}}}[fig:\getvariable{talk}{speakername}] \NC\NR \NC Title \EQ \getvariable{talk}{title} \NC\NR \stoptabulate \startplacefigure[number=no] \externalfigure[\getvariable{talk}{picture}] \stopplacefigure \page \stopbuffer \setvariable{talk}{set}{\getbuffer[pagetalk]} \define[3]\maketalk{% \setvariables[talk]% [speakername={#1}, title={#2}, picture={#3}, ]} \defineseparatedlist[seplisttalk] [separator={;}, command=\maketalk] \startseplisttalk {Hacker} ; {Up to date hacking} ; {hacker.jpg} Hacker ; Up to date hacking ; hacker.jpg \stopseplisttalk \stoptext %% end database-command.tex

Otared Kavian mailto:otared@gmail.com 30. Januar 2018 um 16:53 Hi again Wolfgang,

I think I understood what is going wrong with my example after your hint: I have to remove all spaces around the separator and remove also the braces around each entry. That is the following works fine:

\startseplisttalk Hacker;Up to date hacking;hacker.jpg Hacker;Up to date hacking;hacker.jpg \stopseplisttalk

while the following does not (as far as the filename is concerned):

\startseplisttalk {Hacker};{Up to date hacking};{hacker.jpg} Hacker ; Up to date hacking ; hacker.jpg \stopseplisttalk

Is there a way to make the \defineseparatedlist command to be more tolerant for the filename?

No but you can remove the space with Lua. \externalfigure[\cldcontext{string.collapsespaces("\getvariable{talk}{picture}")}] Wolfgang

Otared Kavian mailto:otared@gmail.com 30. Januar 2018 um 18:56

Thanks again! That does it.

However, it seems strange that the \externalfigure command does not accept a space in front of the file name nor after the file extension, while \input is very tolerant in that respect. Compare

\input knuth.tex \input knuth.tex \input{knuth.tex}

Spaces after a control sequence are gobbled and multiple spaces are skipped. Braces around the filename are allowed because this function was added with the extensions to the TeX binary (which means it doesn’t work with Knuths original TeX), try this \input{ knuth.tex} to load a file with a space in the name. Wolfgang

Otared Kavian mailto:otared@gmail.com 30. Januar 2018 um 16:53 Hi again Wolfgang,

I think I understood what is going wrong with my example after your hint: I have to remove all spaces around the separator and remove also the braces around each entry. That is the following works fine:

\startseplisttalk Hacker;Up to date hacking;hacker.jpg Hacker;Up to date hacking;hacker.jpg \stopseplisttalk

while the following does not (as far as the filename is concerned):

\startseplisttalk {Hacker};{Up to date hacking};{hacker.jpg} Hacker ; Up to date hacking ; hacker.jpg \stopseplisttalk

Add “strip=yes” to remove spaces around the cells. \defineseparatedlist [seplisttalk] [separator={;}, command=\maketalk, strip=yes] Wolfgang

Otared Kavian mailto:otared@gmail.com 31. Januar 2018 um 17:58

Yes it does the job! Thanks again, but I wonder where did you find this trick?… in i-context.pdf there is no entry for \defineseparatedlist…

setup-en.pdf (and i-context.pdf) contains only commands from the core. There are lists for many modules (e.g. i-database.xml contains the options for the database module) but no PDF which shows them. Wolfgang

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:20 PM, Otared Kavian wrote:

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On 31 Jan 2018, at 18:11, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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[…] Thanks again, but I wonder where did you find this trick?… in i-context.pdf there is no entry for \defineseparatedlist…

setup-en.pdf (and i-context.pdf) contains only commands from the core. There are lists for many modules (e.g. i-database.xml contains the options for the database module) but no PDF which shows them.

Indeed looking for the file i-database.xml I discovered that in context-minimal/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/interface/mkiv/ there are lots of file such as i-ABC.xml, which can be typeset in order to obtain a pdf. A great piece of information… thanks!

In the same folder: i-context.pdf i-readme.pdf -- luigi