Re: buffer question

Hans Hagen via ntg-context <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.context
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/16/2026 1:14 PM, Jim via ntg-context wrote:
> Hi buffer experts,
> 
> Is it possible to combine two buffers into one?
> 
> Google (ha ha!) told me
> 
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> \starttext
> 
> \startbuffer[one]
> Content from buffer one.
> \stopbuffer
> 
> \startbuffer
> Content from buffer two.
> \stopbuffer
> 
> \startbuffer[combined]
>      \getbuffer[one]
>      \getbuffer
> \stopbuffer
> 
> ...
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> 
> but that only combines them in a useful way if I do
> 
>          \getbuffer[combined]
> 
> If I do
> 
>          \typebuffer[combined]
> 
> I don't get
> 
>          Content from buffer one.
> 
>          Content from buffer two.
> 
> (I realize that if I have two named buffers "one" and "two" I can do
>          \typebuffer[one,two]
> but what if I want to use the unnamed buffer?)
> 
> Thanks.

It's baffling what usage patterns people can come up with.

\starttext

\startbuffer[one]
Content from buffer one.
\stopbuffer

\startbuffer
Content from buffer two.
\stopbuffer

\getbuffer[one,]

\getbuffer[one,{}]

\getbuffer[one,,,one]

\stoptext




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