On 28-7-2010 1:12, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
Dnia Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:53:18AM -0700, Rory Molinari napisał(a):
I usually flip a coin to choose between "he" and "she" before I start a document, and stick with it. (If I think the issue might be of interest to the reader I add a footnote explaining this.)
I like that! Although I bet that sooner or later some stupid feminist will accuse you of cheating (unless you toss the "female" side more often, in which case she'll be waiting for this tendency to change;)...)
as normally one can swap he/she without problems, we can make a module for that .. % Of course one can now wonder if \heshe or \shehe should be defined first. \getrandomcount\scratchcounter{0}{10} \ifnum\scratchcounter<5 \enablemode[gender:male] \edef\heshe {he} \edef\HeShe {He} \edef\hisher{His} \else \enablemode[gender:female] \edef\heshe {she} \edef\HeShe {She} \edef\hisher{Her} \fi \let\shehe \heshe \let\SheHe \HeShe \let\herhis\hisher \starttext I wonder if \heshe\ likes reading this article. \stoptext (looks like i need to move some initialization code as the seed is set at starttext time which is too late) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------