Am 2019-04-09 um 21:38 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.li...@gmail.com>:
> Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 08.04.2019 um 15:26: >> How would you approach serial letters, e.g. to all members of a club? >> (Actually I need to send out donation receipts.) >> >> I’d like to use the letter module, since my usual letter design is using it. >> >> I can export the addresses to CSV, JSON, Lua tables or whatever or transfer >> them to a SQLite db. >> Would it make more sense to read them in Lua and combine this data with a >> buffer, or to write a single tex file for every letter? >> I know how to do the latter, but I’d like to learn a more ConTeXt-ish way. >> Would it make sense to use the bibliographies module? > > You can use the letter module when you drop the normal letter-environment > which is to limited in this case because it uses the buffer mechanism to > store the content. > > To have more control over the content for the opening etc. you can switch to > the setups alternative (even the content can be set in this way instead of > the default buffer) and set all texts with a setups-block. > > The letter itself can be flushed with the \placeletter command, below is a > simple example where I flush the letter after each variables setting but you > should be able to do the same with a lua table or csv file. Thank you very much! I’ll try to come up with a solution (and document it). Grüßlinge, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.dreiviertelhaus.de GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
