From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/46272 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Bart C. Wise" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ! Extra \else error Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:40:36 -0700 Message-ID: <200812110740.37327.bntgcontext@wiseguysweb.com> References: <200812110650.53610.bntgcontext@wiseguysweb.com> <769ba7780812110605t794abb4bhf84d2c28f5d4e05@mail.gmail.com> <4941210F.8030300@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229006711 8520 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2008 14:45:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:45:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Hans Hagen To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Dec 11 15:46:13 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LAmn4-0007Uc-B3 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:45:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFEBB1FC43; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:44:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09589-01-2; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:42:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 839981FB95; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:42:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE23A1FB8F for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:42:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09593-01 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:41:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com (out02.mta.xmission.com [166.70.13.232]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E3D1FBC6 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:40:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mx04.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.214]) by out02.mta.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1LAmjS-0008Rg-5m; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:41:38 -0700 Original-Received: from bwise1.provo.novell.com ([137.65.171.141] helo=bwise1.localnet) by mx04.mta.xmission.com with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LAmoO-0005NP-FN; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:46:44 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.27-9-generic; KDE/4.1.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4941210F.8030300@wxs.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-XM-SPF: eid=; ; ; mid=; ; ; hst=mx04.mta.xmission.com; ; ; ip=137.65.171.141; ; ; frm=bntgcontext@wiseguysweb.com; ; ; spf=none X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 137.65.171.141 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl, pragma@wxs.nl X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: bntgcontext@wiseguysweb.com X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa04 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Spam-Relay-Country: X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:40:56 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mx04.mta.xmission.com) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:46272 Archived-At: On Thursday 11 December 2008 07:17:51 am Hans Hagen wrote: > Zhichu Chen wrote: > > Hi Bart > > > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Bart C. Wise > > > > wrote: > >> When I run the code below (via minimals), I get the following error, > >> why? > >> > >> enter loop > >> > >> ! Extra \else. > >> > >> \@@plniterate ...\expandafter \@@plniterate \else > >> > >> \fi > >> > >> \myloop ...by 1 \ifnum \tempcnta >#1\else \repeat > > > > I think the loop structure should be: > > \loop ... \if... ... \repeat > > just use: > > \doloop { > > \ifwhateveryoulike > \exitloop > \fi > Hans, Thanks, that works. But shouldn't the other one work as well? Is there something wrong with the syntax? Bart ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________