Dear Context’ers, I am trying to use the letter module in mkiv for typesetting serial letters from an xml database.
Thanks, Thomas for looking into this. I appreciate it very much. Yet I don’t know either whether I actually need the letter module, but it seemed reasonable to try this first. Today I tried to insert some simple luatex code which I found on another forum. The results are promising: a. The address appears. b. The salutation + formalname also appear. Yet there are some problems: 1. the address elements appear in one line, not underneath as desired, 2. When I add text such as Knuth or references to the database, Context stops. See the code below. My question at this point is: how can I proceed? Do I actually need the letter module? Kind regards, Robert
brieven2mkiv.pdf
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\usemodule[letter]
\starttext
\startbuffer[participants]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<document>
<contacts>
<contact class='participant' label='Hendriks'>
<formalname>Hendriks</formalname>
<informalname>Karel</informalname>
<prefix>mr.</prefix>
<initials>K.</initials>
<courselevel>levelA</courselevel>
<coursedate>1 june 2017</coursedate>
<city>Arnhem</city>
<address>
<p>Mr. K. Hendriks</p>
<p>Grotestraat 5</p>
<p>1234 Arnhem</p>
</address>
</contact>
<contact class='participant' label='Janssen'>
<formalname>Janssen</formalname>
<informalname>Piet</informalname>
<initials>P.</initials>
<prefix>mr.</prefix>
<courselevel>levelA</courselevel>
<coursedate>1 june 2017</coursedate>
<city>Nijmegen</city>
<address>
<p>Mr. P. Janssen</p>
<p>Kortestraat 8</p>
<p>1234 Nijmegen</p>
</address>
</contact>
</contacts>
</document>
\stopbuffer
\startxmlsetups xml:setups
\xmlsetsetup{#1}{contacts|contact|address|prefix}{xml:*}
\stopxmlsetups
\xmlregistersetup{xml:setups}
\startxmlsetups xml:contacts
\xmlflush{#1}
\stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups xml:p
\xmlflush{#1}
\par
\stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups xml:contact
\defineletterelement[layer][address][example]%
{\correspondenceparameter{toname}\\
\correspondenceparameter{toaddress}
\par}
\setupletterlayer[address][alternative=example]
\startletter
[opening={{Dear \xmltext{#1}{/prefix} \xmltext{#1}{/formalname},}},
closing={Kind regards,},
signature={Sender},
toaddress={{\xmltext{#1}{/address}}},
subject={Interesting offer}]
%\input knuth
%{\xmltext{#1}{/informalname}}
%\xmltext{#1}{/address/p}
\stopletter
\stopxmlsetups
\startluacode
userdata = userdata or { }
userdata.letter = { }
\stopluacode
\xmlprocessbuffer{main}{participants}{}
\stoptext
> Op 18 jun. 2017, om 17:33 heeft Thomas A. Schmitz
> <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven:
>
> On 06/15/2017 11:58 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> Thusfar I have been trying to use the letter module with the xmltext and
>> xmlflush commands. What can be done to make this work?
>> Thanks!
>
> I'm sorry, I don't use the letter module and don't have it installed. As far
> as I can see, your way of using the xml commands is correct. There appears to
> be some sort of incompatibility between the letter module and xml, but I
> guess only Wolfgang (the author of the module) can really say what's going
> on. If you want to typeset simple letters, maybe you can bypass the module?
>
> Thomas
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