And in pathological cases where even this does not work (as I encountered a few days ago): \setbox\scratchbox=\vboxx{content}\ifdim\wd\scratchbox>\zeropoint .. \else .. \fi dr. Hans van der Meer

On 2 Aug 2021, at 17:17, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:

On 8/2/2021 4:43 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:

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On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, Benjamin Buchmuller via ntg-context wrote:

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Hi,

How can I check if a buffer or block has content (or is empty) before a \useblocks or \getbuffer statement?

I would like to typeset a headline only if the buffer/block has been used in a particular section and want to avoid headlines with empty sections. There may be more efficient ways to do it (since buffers are stored at the lua end), but you can always do \doiftextelse(\getbuffer[...]} to test it buffer creates any output. indeed you know there is a way ...

\starttext

\startbuffer[test] test \stopbuffer

\doifelsebuffer{test} {YES} {NOP}

\permanent\protected\def\doifelsebuffercontent#1% {\doifelse{\luaexpr{(string.strip(buffers.getcontent("#1")) ~= "" and "yes")}}{yes}}

\startbuffer[test] \stopbuffer

\doifelsebuffercontent{test} {YES} {NOP}

\startbuffer[test]

\stopbuffer

\doifelsebuffercontent{test} {YES} {NOP}

\stoptext

if we can agree on a proper name then i can add a (more efficient) \doifelse...

Hans

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Hans Hagen via ntg-context schrieb am 02.08.2021 um 17:17:

On 8/2/2021 4:43 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:

...

On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, Benjamin Buchmuller via ntg-context wrote:

...

Hi,

How can I check if a buffer or block has content (or is empty) before a \useblocks or \getbuffer statement?

I would like to typeset a headline only if the buffer/block has been used in a particular section and want to avoid headlines with empty sections.

There may be more efficient ways to do it (since buffers are stored at the lua end), but you can always do \doiftextelse(\getbuffer[...]} to test it buffer creates any output. indeed you know there is a way ...

\starttext

\startbuffer[test] test \stopbuffer

\doifelsebuffer{test} {YES} {NOP}

\permanent\protected\def\doifelsebuffercontent#1%   {\doifelse{\luaexpr{(string.strip(buffers.getcontent("#1")) ~= "" and "yes")}}{yes}}

\startbuffer[test] \stopbuffer

\doifelsebuffercontent{test} {YES} {NOP}

\startbuffer[test]

\stopbuffer

\doifelsebuffercontent{test} {YES} {NOP}

\stoptext

if we can agree on a proper name then i can add a (more efficient) \doifelse...

To follow the existing commands we can use \doifelsebufferempty \doifelsebuffersomething \doifelsebuffernothing or (we already have \xmldoif... and \btxdoif...) \bufferdoifelseempty \bufferdoifelsesomething \bufferdoifelsenothing Wolfgang