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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: optional arguments, if(nth)argument
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:23:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41DE5524.2010003@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A08CC25C-6018-11D9-AD4B-0030659899AA@fiee.net>

Hi,

There is interference with the \bTR macro. It works fine with all
TABLE commands removed. The table macros like \bTR and \bTD
themselves use \dodoubleempty.

Greetings, Taco

Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Hello again!
> 
> Today I'm trying a lot of new (to me) things...
> This time, a macro with optional arguments and \if...argument :
> 
> \def\SkillField{\dodoubleempty\doSkillField}
> 
> \def\doSkillField[#1][#2]#3{\bTR\bTD #3
>     \iffirstargument\hfill (#1)\fi     % don't print when no optional 
> argument
>     \eTD \bTD
>     \ifsecondargument                  % if second optional arg is provided
>         \definefield[#2][line][Skill][#1]\field[#2]
>     \else                              % if no second optional arg
>         \definefield[#3][line][Skill][#3]\field[#3]
>     \fi
>     \eTD\eTR}
> 
> e.g.
> \SkillField[+8][Aergern]{Ärgern} % works
> \SkillField[+1]{Labern} % does nothing instead of "else"
> \SkillField{Testen} % does "\hfill (#1)", but should do nothing
> 
> Apparently, the \if...argument ... \else don't work as they should.
> Where's my mistake?
> 
> 
> Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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      reply	other threads:[~2005-01-07  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-06 19:24 Henning Hraban Ramm
2005-01-07  9:23 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]

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