On 3/21/2023 12:34 AM, Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context wrote:
I have a technical manual style document that requires a lot of examples to be
included.
They can easily be typeset with a table so I thought I would save myself some
typing by defining macros for the various bits of a tabulate table. Thus I have:
\def\startMyExample{\starttabulate[|r|c|l|p|]}
\def\stopMyExample{\stoptabulate}
\def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR}
\starttext
Here are some examples...
\startMyExample
\MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after}
\MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin}
\stopMyExample
%\stoptabulate
\stoptext
The problem is that \stopMyExample doesn't work - the \stoptabulate isn't
recognised and I get an end of file reached error. If use a straight \stoptabulate
then it works as expected. That's fine but it would be nice, from an aesthetic
point of view, to have start & stop 'paired' commands in the source.
Presumably some sort of deep ConTeXt fu is going on - can anyone explain it
please?
\definetabulate[MyExample][|r|c|l|p|]
\def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR}
\startMyExample
\MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after}
\MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin}
\stopMyExample
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