Re: [NTG-context] creating environments

30 Jan 2007

      On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:15:34 -0500 (EST)
Aditya Mahajan  wrote:
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
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Hi all,
I have a module with a envrionment defined in the following way:
\def\startFOO#1\stopFOO{...#1...}
I try currently to write a command \defineFOO[MYFOO] that expands to my
already created environment.
\startMYFOO#1\stopMYFOO -> \startFOO#1\stopFOO
I know it is possible to make this in the following way:
\def\startMYFOO#1\stopMYFOO{\startFOO#1\stopFOO}
but this not what I want.
Something like this
\def\defineFOO[#1]%
   {\setvalue{\c!start#1}{\startFOO}
    \setvalue{\c!stop#1} {\stopFOO}}
Hi Aditya,

this can only be used if you define your environment in this way:

\def\startFOO{...}
\def\stopFoo{...}

I defined my environment in this way:

\def\startFOO#1\stopFOO{...}

This means TeX reads everything from \startFOO till \stopFOO and looks
afterwards at the replacement text.

I used tried the first way with saving the content into a buffer and
using the buffer content. This did no longer work when you try to write:

\placefloat
{\startFOO
 ...
 \stopFOO}

or

\starcombination[...]
{\startFOO
 ...
 \stopFOO}
{}
...
\stopcombination

Wolfgang