Number conversions (Was Re: My ideas for tooltips)

[Taco Hoekwater <bittext@quicknet.nl>]

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Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> 
> Taco wrote:
> >
> > It is *possible* btw. that the example tooltip worked ok just because
> > of that. I don't think I have the math core patch installed on this
> > machine.
> >
> 
> Nope. I'm using pdfeTeX in extended mode too, same version as you. Rats.

Maybe I *do* have the math patch installed then? Anyway, my context
deviates from the distribution regularly ;)

... and now for something completely different ...

I needed some extensions to the number conversions provided by context
(like character conversion for numbers > 26, which is broken :() nd
the attached file is what I came up with. It's rough, but maybe someone
will be interested enough to make requests? Here's a usage example/demo
(\maxcount == TeX's max integer divided by 26):

%&cont-en

\input radix

\switchtobodyfont[9pt]

\def\c#1{\hbox to 4.5em{#1\hss}}

\edef\maxcount{41297762}

\starttext

\noindent  \c{dec} \c{dchar} \c{char} \c{Char}
  \c{oct} \c{hex} \c{Hex} \c{bin}\par

\medskip
\hrule
\medskip

\advance\baselineskip -1pt
\dorecurse{53}{%
\noindent
  \c{\recurselevel}
  \c{\dcharacters{\recurselevel}}
  \c{\characters{\recurselevel}}
  \c{\Characters{\recurselevel}}
  \c{\octal{\recurselevel}}
  \c{\hexal{\recurselevel}}
  \c{\Hexal{\recurselevel}}
  \c{\binary{\recurselevel}}\par 
}

\noindent
  \c{\maxcount}
  \c{}
  \c{\characters{\maxcount}}
  \c{\Characters{\maxcount}}
  \c{\octal{\maxcount}}
  \c{\hexal{\maxcount}}
  \c{\Hexal{\maxcount}}
  \c{\binary{\maxcount}}\par

\stoptext

Greetings, Taco

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