Re: [NTG-context] New to TeX, ConTeXt - How to conditionally include document sections?
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?
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 string in variable equals string 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 ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] New to TeX, ConTeXt - How to conditionally include document sections?
Stephen Gadsby wrote:
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 string in variable equals string 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.
\doifelse{stringa}{stringb}{...}{...}
in mkiv: syst-aux.mkiv, in mkii: syst-gen.mkii cum suis .. or search the
wiki for doif
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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Re: [NTG-context] New to TeX, ConTeXt - How to conditionally include document sections?
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 ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
