defining a comamnd as variable which behaves as constant

defining a comamnd as variable which behaves as constant

[Pablo Rodriguez]

Dear list,

I have the following document:

    \mainlanguage[es]
    \starttext
    \startTEXpage[offset=1em]
    \dorecurse{27}%
        {\def\abcd{\convertnumber{a}{\recurselevel}}%
            \dorecurse{27}%
                {\abcd\convertnumber{a}{\recurselevel} }\par}
    \stopTEXpage
    \stoptext

I want to test all lowercase-letter pairs in Spanish.

Excuse me for my missing programming notions. For the sample above, I
would need a command that behaves as a variable when defined, but as a
constant when invoked.

Is there any way to achieve that without using counters? Sorry if there
is too much nonsense in the previous paragraph. But I need to know how
to do it for another example too.

Many thanks for your help,

Pablo
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http://www.ousia.tk
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Re: defining a comamnd as variable which behaves as constant

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Sun, 10 Apr 2016, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I have the following document:
>
>    \mainlanguage[es]
>    \starttext
>    \startTEXpage[offset=1em]
>    \dorecurse{27}%
>        {\def\abcd{\convertnumber{a}{\recurselevel}}%
>            \dorecurse{27}%
>                {\abcd\convertnumber{a}{\recurselevel} }\par}
>    \stopTEXpage
>    \stoptext
>
> I want to test all lowercase-letter pairs in Spanish.
>
> Is there any way to achieve that without using counters? Sorry if there
> is too much nonsense in the previous paragraph. But I need to know how
> to do it for another example too.

\edef\abcd{....}

Aditya
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Re: defining a comamnd as variable which behaves as constant

[Pablo Rodriguez]

On 04/10/2016 07:17 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Apr 2016, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>> [...]
>> Is there any way to achieve that without using counters? Sorry if there
>> is too much nonsense in the previous paragraph. But I need to know how
>> to do it for another example too.
> 
> \edef\abcd{....}

Thank you very much for your reply, Aditya.

I have seen \edef for years, but I didn’t know what it actually was.

Many thanks again for your help,

Pablo
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Re: defining a comamnd as variable which behaves as constant

[Wolfgang Schuster]

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> Pablo Rodriguez <mailto:oinos@gmx.es>
> 10. April 2016 um 00:00
> Dear list,
>
> I have the following document:
>
> \mainlanguage[es]
> \starttext
> \startTEXpage[offset=1em]
> \dorecurse{27}%
> {\def\abcd{\convertnumber{a}{\recurselevel}}%
> \dorecurse{27}%
> {\abcd\convertnumber{a}{\recurselevel} }\par}
> \stopTEXpage
> \stoptext
>
> I want to test all lowercase-letter pairs in Spanish.
>
> Excuse me for my missing programming notions. For the sample above, I
> would need a command that behaves as a variable when defined, but as a
> constant when invoked.
>
> Is there any way to achieve that without using counters? Sorry if there
> is too much nonsense in the previous paragraph. But I need to know how
> to do it for another example too.
You can use Lua to create a list of all character combinations. The 
convert function
takes three argument, the first is the conversion method, the second the 
conversion
value and the third the language (optional and only used by certain 
conversion methods).


\starttext

\startluacode
for i = 1,27 do
     for j = 1,27 do
         context(converters.convert("a",i,"es"))
         context(converters.convert("a",j,"es"))
         context.par()
     end
end
\stopluacode

\stoptext

Wolfgang

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