At 10:24 PM 2/10/2002 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
I have, currently:
>\def\step{
>\ifFirstStep
> \FirstStepfalse
> \starttabulate[|p(.4\hsize)|p|]
>\else
> \NC \NR
>\fi
>}
>
>The intention is that each recipe has a title, some arbitrary amount
>(possibly no) leading material, then a series of steps, such that:
>
>\recipe(title)
>... stuff about the recipe ...
>\step
>... first step ...
>\step
>... second step ....
>\end
>
>
>When I try to run the TeX file, however, I get the following output:
that kind of trickery will probably interfere with table lookahead (baked
into tex), so i would opt for:
\definetabulate
[recipe]
[|l|l|l|]
\setuptabulate
[recipe]
[inner=\setquicktabulate\step,before=]
\startrecipe
\step first step \\ next \\ more \\
\step second step \\ bla \\ again \\
\step last step \\ next \\ oeps \\
\stoprecipe
\definehead[recipe][subsubsubject]
\setuphead[recipe][after=,style=bold]
\def\StartRecipe#1%
{\recipe{#1}\startrecipe}
\StartRecipe{whatever}
\step first step \\ next \\ more \\
\step second step \\ bla \\ again \\
\step last step \\ next \\ oeps \\
\stoprecipe
> Also, it didn't seem to be possible to use buffers within a macro at
right, limitation by design
>all; they didn't pick up any content no matter what I put in them.
>
>This failed:
>
>\setupbuffer[test]
>\hidebuffers[test]
>
>\def\test{\begintest This is a test \endtest}
>
>\test
>
>\getbuffer[test]
In your case you could store teh text into a macro -)
You can however fill a buffer in the following way:
\def\test{\setbuffer[test]This is a test\endbuffer}
\test
\getbuffer[test]
There is also \definebuffer as well as the undocumented \dostartbuffer
\def\GrabCrap{\dostartbuffer[crap][GrabCrap][NoMoreCrap]}
\GrabCrap
believe it or not
but this works
\NoMoreCrap
\getbuffer[crap]
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