From: Andreas Schneider <aksdb@gmx.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: setupinteraction and macroexpansion
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:59:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11410450325.20120619105929@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ADC6791-A24A-4EBB-8A87-0A0CF86B4559@googlemail.com>
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On Tuesday, June 19, 2012, at 10:42 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 19.06.2012 um 10:39 schrieb Andreas Schneider:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm a bit lost with macro expansion here. I try to use some macros to
>> set the title (and subject) of the PDF document. The attached minimal
>> example shows what I want to achieve.
>>
>> I tried def, edef, gdef, define, explicit expand, expandoneafter, etc.
>> etc. without any success. Whatever I do, the title field in the PDF
>> metadata always contains the raw "\date..." command instead of the
>> formatted date.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> You can’t use \date (or any other unexpandable command) in an expandable context.
> Wolfgang
Hmm I see, so \date is simply not possible for that case. Ok, thanks
for explaining that I wasn't aware (until now) that commands can be
unexpandable.
Thanks again! :-)
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Best Regards,
Andreas
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2012-06-19 8:39 Andreas Schneider
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