[NTG-context] Re: command line arguments

[Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>]

Am 19.03.24 um 23:53 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
> Hraban Ramm schrieb am 19.03.2024 um 21:41:
>> Following up on the other imposition question, I'm trying to make an 
>> example file that shows an imposition schema according to command 
>> line arguments.
>>
>> This way it works for the number of pages, as used in 
>> \dorecurse{\Pages}{…}, but not for the imposition schema. Typesetting 
>> \Schema looks right, but \setuparranging doesn’t work. Where's my error?
>
> You forgot about expansion and in your case \doifelsedocumentargument 
> is not fully expandable. This doesn't matter for \dorecurse where the 
> number parser ignores the flag because \setuparranging does care and 
> \Schema fails to expand.
Thank you! Well, I tried \expanded in a few places, and that didn’t work.
>
>> \def\Schema{\doifelsedocumentargument{schema}{\getdocumentargument{schema}}{1*8}} 
>>
>>
>> \def\Pages{\doifelsedocumentargument{numberofpages}{\getdocumentargument{numberofpages}}{16}} 
>>
>>
>> \setuparranging[\Schema]
>
> \doifelsedocumentargument{schema}
>   {\setuparranging[\getdocumentargument{schema}]}
>   {\setuparranging[1*8]}

Ok, that works. (Of course, if you say so.)

>
> It does also help to look at the included extra files (e.g. 
> mtx-context-arrange.tex) written by Hans.
>
Well, I don’t know how to use that, it doesn’t compile on its own, any 
hints?

Hraban

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