Re[3]: parameter mechanism

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 19:22 27/08/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Wednesday, August 27, 2003 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>
>GB> Wednesday, August 27, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>HH>> At 16:56 27/08/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>
> >>>The trick is in mult-ini.tex, which redefines dosetvalue & co
> >>>to support the multilingual interface; this is a problem when
> >>>you want to get raw (unconverted) keyword/value sets, which is
> >>>why it fails. ConTeXt used to have "raw" version of the
> >>>do..value commands, but they disappeared at one point. Yes,
> >>>they should be re-introduced.
>
>HH>> i dunno what grep you have but mine gives:
>
>HH>> syst-new.tex:\def\getrawparameters
>HH>> {\dogetparameters\dosetrawvalue }
>HH>> syst-new.tex:\def\getraweparameters
>HH>> {\dogetparameters\dosetrawevalue}
>HH>> syst-new.tex:\def\getrawgparameters
>HH>> {\dogetparameters\dosetrawgvalue}
>HH>> syst-new.tex:\def\getrawxparameters
>HH>> {\dogetparameters\dosetrawxvalue}
>
>GB> I can't believe I missed them! What was I looking for?
>
>BTW is there any difference between this and the variables
>system?

the difference is that an undefined variable gives an empty string instead 
of \relax

Hans


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