On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Stephen Gadsby wrote:
Please pardon my newness to TeX, ConTeXt, and this list. If I violate
list etiquette, I apologize and hope you will let me know. Thank you.
Don't worry. Newbie questions are welcome here.
I'm attempting to abandon the use of Word for a maintaining a growing
set of 30 to 60 page documents that provide information on similar, but
not identical, equipment at a range of locations. My idea was to create
one ConTeXt project that, depending upon the definition of one string in
the project file, appropriately adjusts the resulting document's title
and pulls in component "foo" for location "A", "bar" for location "B",
etc.
My problem is, after playing with if, ifx, and ifcase for some time and
digging through all the ConTeXt and TeX documentation I can find, I'm
still not understanding how to accomplish the TeX/ConTeXt equivalent of:
if <string in variable> equals <string> then
do thing 1
...
do thing n
else if...
ConTeXt has a mechanism called modes that does exactly this. The official
documentation is a bit terse, but should give you enough hints to get
started.
http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mmodes.pdf
There are also some hints on the wiki page:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modes
If someone would please point me to documentation or an example of how
to accomplish string comparison based if-thens in ConTeXt, I'd greatly
appreciate it.
For what you want, modes should be sufficient. If for something else you
really want to do string comparisons, ConTeXt provides a bunch of
\doifelse commands
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros/Branches_and_Decisions
Aditya
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