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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: getbuffer now fails
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:41:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080323154109.1aa86531.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9AA45BC6-36B5-403C-867C-28769E95214D@science.uva.nl>

Hi Hans,

Could you send us the example and the version of your ConTeXt
installation. It would be also interesting is you use MkII or MkIV to
process your files.

Wolfgang

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:36:47 +0100 Hans van der Meer
<hansm@science.uva.nl> wrote:

> I had this code working (it was in an article I submitted for NTG-MAPS  
> a while ago, july 2007). Now this same code gives an error on getbuffer.
> What happened to getbuffer? Is it possible a \fi has disappeared in  
> the getbuffer code between now and last july? Is there a quick patch  
> because now I get stuck on work that has to be finished.
> 
> The error message from TeX:
> ! Incomplete \ifx; all text was ignored after line 6.
> <inserted text>
>                  \fi
> <to be read again>
>                     \relax
> \dodoreadfile ...d \relax \fi \dodoreadfileindeed
>                                                    \relax \the  
> \everyafterrea...
> 
> \mkdobuffer #1->\beginrestorecatcodes #1
>                                          \endrestorecatcodes
> \dodobuffer ...dcsname \else #2\fi }\mkdobuffer #1
>                                                    \popmacro  
> \currentbuffer
> \dodogetbuffer ...}\dobuffer {16}{#2}\mkgetbuffer
>                                                    \getvalue {\??bu  
> #1\c!after }
> ...
> l.111 \question[number=1][buffer]{\getbuffer}
> 
> The relevant part of the code, not working is the call to \@exmbuffer:
> 	...
> 	\doifelse{#2}{\v!buffer}%
> 		{\def\filename{buffer}\def\thefile{#3}\let\@@exminput\@exmbuffer}%
> 		{.....}%
> 	\@@exminput\thefile
> 	\endgroup}
> % reading the file better outside the doif
> \def\@exminput#1{\input#1\relax}
> \def\@exmbuffer#1{#1}
> 
> Help is appreciated.
> 
> Hans van der Meer
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2008-03-23 11:36 Hans van der Meer
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