How to create a more human-readable syntax for displaying workbook activities?
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I am creating a student workbook. There are ~30 chapters, each containing ~20 activities, called "Activity A", "Activity B", and so on. The `workbook.tex` itself uses a recurse function, so it prints chapter 1-30. The reason I use this, is if I need to do a fast test of the code, I can compile a specific range of chapters, not the whole workbook. \define\activityA{} \define\activityB{} \dostepwiserecurse{1}{30}{1}{ \chapter{\recurselevel} \activityA \activityB } \activityA prints the workbook activity "Activity A". \activityB prints the workbook activity "Activity B". The problem comes in that some activities have varied versions. Just as an example, "Activity C might be a crossword puzzle in some chapters, but a word search in other chapters. My poor solution has been to use registercyclist: \define\altCa{print a crossword} \define[3]\altCb{print a word search} \registercyclelist{activityClist}{\altCa, \altCb{}{}{}, \altCb{}{}{}} \define\activityC{% \usecyclelist{activityClist} } This code works okay, but becomes broken if I try to change the page range in `dostepwiserecurse` when testing my code. The other problem is the syntax is super messy. Within this single line, tones of data is crammed in: \registercyclelist{activityClist}{\altCa, \altCb{}{}{}, \altCb{}{}{}} ...not only is it not easy to read which chapter gets which activity, I also have to fill in the {}{}{} with data, making it more difficult to read. How can I create a much cleaner, human-readable syntax for storing this? Is there some simpler way to tell ConTeXt Chapter 1 gets one variant, Chapter 2, 3, and 4 get another, etc.?
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Joel