Re: finishing a module

[Thomas A.Schmitz <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

Taco, I feel bad taking your time, but still no go. For clarity's sake, 
I leave aside the scaling for the time being. I thought that after

unprotect

\def\setupgreek#1[#2]{%
   \getparameters[GG][Scale=,Font=,#2]%Font,Scale
\xdef\MyScale{\GGScale}%
\processaction[\GGFont]
    [  SomeFont=>\xdef\MyFont{somefont }]%
}

\protect

the macro \MyFont would always expand to "somefont ". But it doesn't 
seem to do so in

\definefont[Gf][\MyFont]

I still get the error message. When I assign it "manually"

\definefont[Gf][somefont ]

it works. I tried every combination of \expanded, \xdef or \edef, but 
it doesn't seem to work (while it does work in \definebodyfont). So it 
must be something within ConTeXt that doesn't let it expand, and I 
don't see how I could escape this problem. The \definebodyfont is a 
workaround for now, but it has the problem that I have to give precise 
font dimensions, which might fail in certain circumstances.

Thanks again

Thomas


On Jan 23, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
>>> This, however, will not work:
>>> \definefont[Gf][\MyFont sa \MyScale]
>
>> It looks like \MyFont doesn't get expanded when the \definefont 
>> command  is read, but this is an area of TeX that I find especially 
>> opaque...
>
> I see. You need
>
> 	\expanded{\definefont[Gf][\MyFont sa \MyScale]}
>
> Or you could \xdef the MyScale (instead of \edef), making it global.
>
> Greetings, Taco
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