From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Expandable \doifelse tests
Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 10:21:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <59214E0E.5040503@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4c3f2e3-63e3-e98f-1f30-4703ae2e2d23@gmail.com>
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\starttext
\expdoifelse{a}{\expdoifelse{x}{x}{a}{b}}
{yes}
{no}
\stoptext
Wolfgang
> Henri Menke <mailto:henrimenke@gmail.com>
> 21. Mai 2017 um 10:14
> Dear list,
>
> Motivated by this question on TeX.SX
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/370868 I was fiddling around
> with the \doifelse conditionals. I noticed that most of them are not
> expandable, which makes it very difficult to concatenate them. Here a
> simple example
>
> \starttext
>
> \doifelse{a}{%
> \doifelse{x}{x}{a}{b}% <- evaluates to "a" but not expandable
> }{yes}{no}
>
> \stoptext
>
> This outputs "no" even though "a" is equal to "a".
>
> Would it be possible to substitute these conditionals by expandable
> ones? I would volunteer to help make them expandable.
>
> Cheers, Henri
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2017-05-21 8:14 Henri Menke
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