Re: [NTG-context] New to TeX, ConTeXt - How to conditionally include document sections?

[Stephen Gadsby]

> From: Hans Hagen
>
> \doifelse{stringa}{stringb}{...}{...}

> From: Aditya Mahajan
>
> 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

Thank you both. I feel quite foolish for somehow overlooking \doifelse. I 
appreciate how kindly you've pointed out what should have been obvious to me.

I'll also look more closely at modes. I'll admit I did briefly look at 
information on them, but I didn't immediately see their usefulness. I'll now 
spend some time reading up on them.

Thank you.

   -Stephen J. Gadsby, Multimedia Specialist
Web & Multimedia Services, Information Technology
Millersville University of Pennsylvania, USA
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[NTG-context] New to TeX, ConTeXt - How to conditionally include document sections?

[Stephen Gadsby]

Good day,

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.

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  equals  then
   do thing 1
   ...
   do thing n
else if...

I've repeatedly come across information on ifthenelse in LaTeX, and in some 
quick tests, it does appear to do exactly what I want. However, while I've 
admittedly only played with LaTeX for a few hours, it seems to make specifying 
exact formatting somewhat difficult. As I'll be turning these documents into 
PDFs myself, rather than sending them off to a publisher, that's a concern for 
me.

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. Thank you.

   -Stephen J. Gadsby, Multimedia Specialist
Web & Multimedia Services, Information Technology
Millersville University of Pennsylvania, USA
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