On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:34:08 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Am 14.01.2013 um 09:00 schrieb Alan BRASLAU <alan.bras...@cea.fr>: > > > Hello, > > > > In addition to \startbuffer \stopbuffer > > it would be nice to have \startappendbuffer \stopappendbuffer. > > > > I see that the lua function buffer.append() exists but I have not > > worked-out how to add this functionality cleanly as conTeXt macros. > > I imagine that this might be quite trivial for our TeX programming > > experts... (for once, a [useful?] suggestion that in the end will > > not entail many hours of work? :) > > > \startbuffer[a] > Line 1 > \stopbuffer > > \startbuffer[b] > Line 2 > \stopbuffer > > \starttext > > \startlines > \getbuffer[a,b] > \stoplines > > \stoptext > > Wolfgang Thank you Wolfgang, this is useful. However, it would still be helpful to be able to generically add to a buffer without having to rename a new one. Shouldn't be very difficult but I did not find that anything like this already exists. I often think this way when I teach, adding steps to an example while repeating the previous steps. \startbuffer[a] Line 1 \stopbuffer \getbuffer[a] \startaddtobuffer[a] Line 2 \stopaddtobuffer \getbuffer[a] Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
