Hi all,
I need to create a document using a database and the \setvariables command
(which I understood thanks to Wolfgang Schuster). Everything works fine except
that using the approach below I need to change the entries in the database by
enclosing each entry between a pair of braces {}, because otherwise the macro I
have imagined does not work as expected. In the example below the first line of
entries is treated correctly, while the second one is understood wrongly by my
macro \maketalk defined below in the minimal example.
It is indeed possible, in theory, to change the database file so that each
entry is enclosed in a pair of braces, but I would like to avoid that mainly
because I am not the one who produces nor maintains that file and I want to
avoid modifying a copy of that file myself.
How can I change my approach to this problem in order to achieve what is needed?
Many thanks for any hint.
Best regards: OK
% begin database-command.tex
\usemodule[database]
\starttext
\startbuffer[pagetalk]
\starttabulate[|f{\bi}l|p|][before=]%
\NC Speaker \EQ
\goto{{\sc
\getvariable{talk}{speakername}}}[fig:\getvariable{talk}{speakername}]
\NC\NR
\NC Title \EQ \getvariable{talk}{title} \NC\NR
\stoptabulate
\startplacefigure[number=no]
\externalfigure[\getvariable{talk}{picture}]
\stopplacefigure
\page
\stopbuffer
\setvariable{talk}{set}{\getbuffer[pagetalk]}
\define[3]\maketalk{%
\setvariables[talk]%
[speakername={#1},
title={#2},
picture={#3},
]}
\defineseparatedlist[seplisttalk]
[separator={;},
first=\maketalk
]
\startseplisttalk
{Hacker} ; {Up to date hacking} ; {hacker.jpg} % this works fine
Hacker ; Up to date hacking ; hacker.jpg % this does not work: the macro takes
only the three characters H a c
\stopseplisttalk
\stoptext
% end database-command.tex
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