Hi Taco,
thanks for your reply!! I have to catch a train now, but I'll try
your suggestion tonight when I'm back. And yes, having the
module<something> variables would be great.
What does \appendtoks do?
Thanks, and all best
Thomas
On Oct 21, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hi Thomas,
It looks like you are looking for (inside the module):
\def\initializegreek
{\switchtobodyfont[My\getvariable{Greek}{font}]}
\appendtoks \initialize \to \everystarttext
There is no other way to get arguments to/from the module.
For Hans: it would be really cool if there was a way to
do something like this:
\usemodule[greek][font=GreekGentium,scale=0.9]
with (in this example) the \usemodule command defining the
variables
\moduleoptionfont
\moduleoptionscale
etc.
Greetings, Taco
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Hi all,
excuse me for being so pig-headed, but I'm running into the same
problem I had two weeks ago. Peter Rolf was incredibly helpful,
but I couldnt get things working. It is more a problem of
architecture and general choices, IMHO, than of actual code. I
tried every single part of what I want to achieve, and it works.
The difficulty lies in getting the variables to work...
Basic problem: I want to refine my greek module. It provides a
command
\setupgreek[font=,scale=]
which sets variables fonts and scale in the namespace Greek. The
command is defined in the module, so in order to use it, the
module has to be read. BUT: I want to use the result [i.e.
\getvariable {Greek}{font} and \getvariable{Greek}{scale}] within
the module itself. Is this possible?
Details: I want to organize the fonts in a typescript to be more
flexible. So the module first defines the setupcommand:
\def\setupgreek{\setvariables[Greek]}
then it calls the typescript
\usetypescriptfile[type-tasgreek]
where all the Greek fonts are defined in this form:
\starttypescript [serif] [GreekGentium] [agr]
\definefontsynonym [Greekgentium-Roman] [genagr-GentiumAlt]
[encoding=agr]
\definefontsynonym [Greekgentium-Italic][genagr-GentiumAItI]
[encoding=agr]
\stoptypescript
\starttypescript [serif] [GreekGentium] [name]
\usetypescript[serif][fallback]
\definefontsynonym [Serif] [Greekgentium-Roman]
\definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Greekgentium-Italic]
\definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Serif]
\definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Serif]
\stoptypescript
So the module calls the typescriptfile (or would it be more
elegant to include these typescripts in the module itself?)
I then have the definition for the command \localgreek which
contains, among other things, a call of the Greek font. I had
been planning to implement it in this form:
\definetypeface [My\getvariable{Greek}{font}] [rm] [serif]
[\getvariable{Greek}{font}] [default] [rscale = \getvariable
{Greek} {font},encoding=agr]
and then, in the setups for \localgreek,
\switchtobodyfont[My\getvariable{Greek}{font}]
And that's where I'm banging my head against the wall: the module
would be used like this
\usemodule[t-greek]
\setupgreek[font=GreekGentium,scale=0.9]
Which means: the entire module will be read BEFORE the
\setupgreek command. But I would need the values of the
setupgreek command WITHIN the module. Is that possible at all?
Would I have to call a third file where the values are then
processed? I tried to look into the source how \setup commands
work, but I do get the impression that collecting the values and
processing them is done in different files. Is this necessary?
And how could I implement it in one module?
Sorry if this sounds confusing, but I'm pretty confused, and
hoping for enlightenment from the wizzards.
All best
Thomas
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