I have a technical manual style document that requires a lot of examples to be included. They can easily be typeset with a table so I thought I would save myself some typing by defining macros for the various bits of a tabulate table. Thus I have: \def\startMyExample{\starttabulate[|r|c|l|p|]} \def\stopMyExample{\stoptabulate} \def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR} \starttext Here are some examples... \startMyExample \MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after} \MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin} \stopMyExample %\stoptabulate \stoptext The problem is that \stopMyExample doesn't work - the \stoptabulate isn't recognised and I get an end of file reached error. If use a straight \stoptabulate then it works as expected. That's fine but it would be nice, from an aesthetic point of view, to have start & stop 'paired' commands in the source. Presumably some sort of deep ConTeXt fu is going on - can anyone explain it please? Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK
Not sure if this helps, Bruce, but there is \definestartstop Julian On 21/3/23 10:34, Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context wrote:
I have a technical manual style document that requires a lot of examples to be included.
They can easily be typeset with a table so I thought I would save myself some typing by defining macros for the various bits of a tabulate table. Thus I have:
\def\startMyExample{\starttabulate[|r|c|l|p|]} \def\stopMyExample{\stoptabulate} \def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR}
\starttext Here are some examples...
\startMyExample \MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after} \MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin} \stopMyExample %\stoptabulate
\stoptext
The problem is that \stopMyExample doesn't work - the \stoptabulate isn't recognised and I get an end of file reached error. If use a straight \stoptabulate then it works as expected. That's fine but it would be nice, from an aesthetic point of view, to have start & stop 'paired' commands in the source.
Presumably some sort of deep ConTeXt fu is going on - can anyone explain it please?
Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK
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On 3/21/2023 12:34 AM, Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context wrote:
I have a technical manual style document that requires a lot of examples to be included.
They can easily be typeset with a table so I thought I would save myself some typing by defining macros for the various bits of a tabulate table. Thus I have:
\def\startMyExample{\starttabulate[|r|c|l|p|]} \def\stopMyExample{\stoptabulate} \def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR}
\starttext Here are some examples...
\startMyExample \MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after} \MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin} \stopMyExample %\stoptabulate
\stoptext
The problem is that \stopMyExample doesn't work - the \stoptabulate isn't recognised and I get an end of file reached error. If use a straight \stoptabulate then it works as expected. That's fine but it would be nice, from an aesthetic point of view, to have start & stop 'paired' commands in the source.
Presumably some sort of deep ConTeXt fu is going on - can anyone explain it please? \definetabulate[MyExample][|r|c|l|p|]
\def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR} \startMyExample \MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after} \MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin} \stopMyExample ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks Julian - I tried a startstop environment originally but it didn't work. The answer turns out to be trivial - just needed to use \long\def for \stoptabulate so the following appears to work: \def\startMyExample{\starttabulate[|r|c|l|p|]} \long\def\stopMyExample{\stoptabulate} %% long def required here \def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR} \starttext Here are some examples... \startMyExample \MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after} \MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin} \stoptabulate \stoptext
On 21 Mar 2023, at 05:23, jbf via ntg-context
wrote: Not sure if this helps, Bruce, but there is \definestartstop
Julian
On 21/3/23 10:34, Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context wrote:
I have a technical manual style document that requires a lot of examples to be included.
They can easily be typeset with a table so I thought I would save myself some typing by defining macros for the various bits of a tabulate table. Thus I have:
\def\startMyExample{\starttabulate[|r|c|l|p|]} \def\stopMyExample{\stoptabulate} \def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR}
\starttext Here are some examples...
\startMyExample \MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after} \MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin} \stopMyExample %\stoptabulate
\stoptext
The problem is that \stopMyExample doesn't work - the \stoptabulate isn't recognised and I get an end of file reached error. If use a straight \stoptabulate then it works as expected. That's fine but it would be nice, from an aesthetic point of view, to have start & stop 'paired' commands in the source.
Presumably some sort of deep ConTeXt fu is going on - can anyone explain it please?
Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK
— Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK
Sorry everyone, ignore me, it doesn't work. (Got my test files mixed up - aargh!)
On 21 Mar 2023, at 11:06, Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context
wrote: Thanks Julian - I tried a startstop environment originally but it didn't work.
The answer turns out to be trivial - just needed to use \long\def for \stoptabulate so the following appears to work:
\def\startMyExample{\starttabulate[|r|c|l|p|]} \long\def\stopMyExample{\stoptabulate} %% long def required here \def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR}
\starttext Here are some examples...
\startMyExample \MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after} \MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin} \stoptabulate
\stoptext
On 21 Mar 2023, at 05:23, jbf via ntg-context
wrote: Not sure if this helps, Bruce, but there is \definestartstop
Julian
On 21/3/23 10:34, Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context wrote:
I have a technical manual style document that requires a lot of examples to be included.
They can easily be typeset with a table so I thought I would save myself some typing by defining macros for the various bits of a tabulate table. Thus I have:
\def\startMyExample{\starttabulate[|r|c|l|p|]} \def\stopMyExample{\stoptabulate} \def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR}
\starttext Here are some examples...
\startMyExample \MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after} \MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin} \stopMyExample %\stoptabulate
\stoptext
The problem is that \stopMyExample doesn't work - the \stoptabulate isn't recognised and I get an end of file reached error. If use a straight \stoptabulate then it works as expected. That's fine but it would be nice, from an aesthetic point of view, to have start & stop 'paired' commands in the source.
Presumably some sort of deep ConTeXt fu is going on - can anyone explain it please?
Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK
— Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK
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