[NTG-context] Problem with \stoptabulate

[Bruce Horrocks]

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 <ntg-context at ntg.nl> 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 <ntg-context at ntg.nl> 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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Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, UK