From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: help on def & buffer
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:11:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56FB8A3F.2010509@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAaWjtHWx7Y_+ks+5x7sm+AvzMANGvF-gFiCyQVjmxwBueda5w@mail.gmail.com>
On 3/30/2016 9:27 AM, Erik Margraf wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> please help me with my problem here ....
>
> I - probably naively - tried the following:
> ------------------------
>
> \starttext
>
>
> \def\Buffer#1#2
>
> {
>
> \startbuffer[#1]
>
> \input #2
>
> \stopbuffer
>
> }
>
> \Buffer{bla}{knuth}
>
>
> \stoptext
>
> -------------------------
>
>
> Context gives me the following error on this:
>
>
> tex error > tex error on line 9 in file
> C:/Users/emargraf/Documents/buffer.tex: ! Undefined control sequence
>
>
>
> \Buffer ...startbuffer [#1] \input #2 \stopbuffer
>
> l.9 \Buffer{bla}{knuth}
\startbuffer .. \stopbuffer is parsed special
so use:
\def\Buffer#1#2
{\setbuffer[#1]{\input #2\relax}}
\Buffer{bla}{knuth}
but i'm not sure what you gain here as it will still input tufte each time
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-30 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-30 7:27 Erik Margraf
2016-03-30 8:11 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2016-03-30 8:34 ` Erik Margraf
2016-03-30 8:53 ` Marco Patzer
2016-03-30 12:46 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-03-30 13:24 ` Erik Margraf
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