* macros and buffers
@ 2002-11-15 11:22 Matthew Huggett
2002-11-15 12:29 ` Hans Hagen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Matthew Huggett @ 2002-11-15 11:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi:
Recently, I had some data I wanted set using tabulate but in 7 individual
buffers. I wanted to use a macro to both create the buffers and do the
\starttabulate...\stoptabulate stuff. I found that my macro could create
the .tmp file for each buffer but that the files were all empty. Why would
this happen, and is there a way to make this work?
example:
\define[5]\MyBuffers{
\startbuffer[#1]
\starttabulate[|l|l|]
\NC #2 \NC #3 \NR
\NC #4 \NC #5
\stoptabulate
\stopbuffer
}
Best Wishes,
Matthew Huggett
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* Re: macros and buffers
2002-11-15 11:22 macros and buffers Matthew Huggett
@ 2002-11-15 12:29 ` Hans Hagen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Hans Hagen @ 2002-11-15 12:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
At 08:22 PM 11/15/2002 +0900, you wrote:
>Hi:
>
>Recently, I had some data I wanted set using tabulate but in 7 individual
>buffers. I wanted to use a macro to both create the buffers and do the
>\starttabulate...\stoptabulate stuff. I found that my macro could create
>the .tmp file for each buffer but that the files were all empty. Why would
>this happen, and is there a way to make this work?
>
>example:
>
>\define[5]\MyBuffers{
> \startbuffer[#1]
> \starttabulate[|l|l|]
> \NC #2 \NC #3 \NR
> \NC #4 \NC #5
> \stoptabulate
> \stopbuffer
>}
this is because buffers do a copy based on grabbing lines; in your case,
use \setbuffer[#1]...\endbuffer
(you're lucky, the next release will provide \usememorybuffers, since a few
days back we needed something similar)
Hans
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