Re: [NTG-context] typesetting serial letters in Context

2017-06-18 Thread r . ermers
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.

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting serial letters in Context

2017-06-15 Thread r . ermers
Hi Thomas, Thanks for your advice. I would like to have a system with which I can send letters to people in my database. It would be nice to be able to make selections according to labels (probably with xmlatt), but that can be done later. I am not a programmer - when I read the

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting serial letters in Context

2017-06-15 Thread r . ermers
I still cannot generate letters from my xml database, although there is apparently a solution to use csv files through lua code (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/72735/how-to-create-form-letters-from-spreadsheet-data-in-context

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting serial letters in Context

2017-06-13 Thread r . ermers
I can take the information out of the nodes. The main problem is to use them in a layout and in a sequences other the one they appear in the xml data file. In the current (mkii) file I have something like this: \midaligned{\XMLflush{formalname}, \XMLflush{informalname}}. Another point on my

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting serial letters in Context

2017-06-13 Thread r . ermers
The problem is that I am not a programmer: I do not know where to start … Robert > Op 13 jun. 2017, om 10:31 heeft Thomas A. Schmitz > het volgende geschreven: > > >> On 13. Jun 2017, at 09:53, luigi scarso wrote: >> >>> Yet there is no

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting serial letters in Context

2017-06-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 13. Jun 2017, at 09:53, luigi scarso wrote: > >> Yet there is no x-corres.mkiv. Who can help me out? >> > I don't remember x-corres.mkiv, but > mkiv has a guide > tex/texmf-context/doc/context/documents/general/manuals/xml-mkiv.pdf Yes, typesetting xml in mkiv is

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting serial letters in Context

2017-06-13 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:40 AM, wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been using Context mkii with the x-corres.mkii module for a number of > years now, for many different purposes (mailings, certificates, etc). The > module works with an xml (actually rng) file with the

[NTG-context] typesetting serial letters in Context

2017-06-13 Thread r . ermers
Hello all, I have been using Context mkii with the x-corres.mkii module for a number of years now, for many different purposes (mailings, certificates, etc). The module works with an xml (actually rng) file with the following structure: Janssen Piet