From: Bart Wise <bart@wiseguysweb.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Remove leading spaces
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:50:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902051350.46564.bart@wiseguysweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0B4DB4E0-89BE-4EAE-A3E1-2371378C177B@gmail.com>
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On Thursday 05 February 2009 01:36:16 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 05.02.2009 um 21:26 schrieb Bart C. Wise:
> > When a function is called, I would like to remove any leading space.
> > Then the function can control the spacing. If I don't remove spaces,
> > it then makes a difference whether or not I have a space before the
> > function is called.
> >
> > Is there a way to do this and not cause any side effects?
>
> You can use \removeunwantedpsaces to remove preceding spaces before
> your command and \ignorespaces to gobble spaces after your command.
>
> A faster version of your macro is:
>
> \def\MyFunction
> {\dosingleempty\doMyFunction}
>
> \def\doMyFunction[#1]%
> {\removeunwantedspaces\executeifdefined{myfunction:#1}
> {\getvalue{myfunction:default}}}
>
> \setvalue{myfunction:1}{\medspace dog }
> \setvalue{myfunction:2}{\medspace cat }
> \setvalue{myfunction:default}{\ldots}
>
Thanks Wolfgang for the answer!
And thanks for the coding hints, they are always appreciated!
Bart
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-05 20:26 Bart C. Wise
2009-02-05 20:36 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-05 20:50 ` Bart Wise [this message]
2009-02-05 20:55 ` setvalue/setvariable (was: Re: Remove leading spaces) Peter Münster
2009-02-05 21:08 ` setvalue/setvariable Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-05 21:37 ` setvalue/setvariable Wolfgang Schuster
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