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From: Marco Patzer <lists@homerow.info>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Assigning a variable to the list argument in \setupsection
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 11:45:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160414114528.32c29495@homerow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAVAL1pX4ZBUeBdq4R=ZV=vphtHMe5N5hv4Yvy1aP_5O7rbOdw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:46:34 +0200
Michael Guravage <guravage@gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to use a variable for the value of the list argument in,
> e.g., the \startsection command. If you compile my little example you
> will see that the first 'literal' assignment works, while the second
> 'variable' assignment does not. What am I missing here?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> \starttext
> 
>   \placecontent
> 
>   \setvariables[TOC][list=Second Section]
> 
>   \startsection [title={First}, list={First Section}]
>     This is the first section.
>   \stopsection
> 
>   \startsection [title={Second}, list={\getvariable{TOC}{list}}]

I suspect issues with the order of expansion because it works with

  \expanded{\startsection [title={Second}, list={\getvariable{TOC}{list}}]}

Marco
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-14  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-14  7:46 Michael Guravage
2016-04-14  9:45 ` Marco Patzer [this message]
2016-04-14 17:15 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-04-14  9:12 Michael Guravage

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