Re: Adding a custom symbol

[Mark Summerfield]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:20:47 +0400
"Valeriy E. Ushakov" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:45:38 +0000, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> 
> > I need to generate 2 different versions of a document. I'd like to
> > do this:
> > 
> >     $ lout --'@Monochrome{Yes}' main.lout > bw.ps
> > 
> > and
> > 
> >     $ lout main.lout > color.ps
> > 
> > How can I add @Monochrome{No} as a default value somewhere?
> 
> IIRC, define that symbol as a named parameter (with appropriate
> default) to, say, @MySetup and @Use @MySetup.  Command line options
> are consulted for overrides when a symbol is @Use'd (see calls to
> HuntCommandOption in z06.c).
> 
> Consider the manual page example @PageType which is a named parameter
> to @DocumentSetup.

Hi Uwe,

I think that's a bit advanced for me, but I'll see if I can find where
@PageType is defined & see if I can imitate it.

Thanks!

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