Re: Simple command with variable number of arguments

[Matthias Weber <matweber@indiana.edu>]

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Thanks Luigi! Now I have a lot to play with…

Matthias


On May 23, 2014, at 7:44 AM, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Matthias Weber <matweber@indiana.edu> wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I would like to define a command that expands
> 
> \vector{2,4} % or vector[2,4] if that’s easier
> 
> to
> 
> \startpmatrix
>  \NC 2 \NR
>  \NC 4 \NR
> \stoppmatrix
> 
> and more generally
> 
> \vector{2,4,1,7}
> 
> to
> 
> \startpmatrix
>  \NC 2 \NR
>  \NC 4 \NR
> \NC 1 \NR
> \NC 7 \NR
> \stoppmatrix
> 
> Any hints how to achieve this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> \definemathmatrix
>   [pmatrix]
>   [left={\left(\,},right={\,\right)}]
> 
> \startluacode
> document = document or {}
> document.matthias =  document.matthias or {} 
> local function lua_columnvector(a)
>  context.startpmatrix()
>   for i,v in ipairs(a) do
>      context.NC() context(tostring(v))  context.NR()
>  end
>  context.stoppmatrix()
> end
> document.matthias.lua_columnvector = document.matthias.lua_columnvector  or lua_columnvector
> \stopluacode
> 
> \def\columnvector#1{\ctxlua{document.matthias.lua_columnvector(#1)}}
> 
> \starttext
> \startformula
> \columnvector{{1,2,3}} %% watch the double { !
> \stopformula
> 
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> -- 
> luigi
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