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From: "Meer, Hans van der" <H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>
To: NTG ConTeXt <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: doifnextcharelse
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:58:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7BBE743F-DD78-44AF-B4FA-8D71A833C918@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A4DC0B.6050408@gmx.es>

Yes this works. But alas, the ultimate goal is to test against several characters and that seems impossible to do with standard ConTeXt api-macros.Let alone when these characters are . or . or ) etc.

Hans van der Meer

met vriendelijke groet
Hans van der Meer




> On 24 Jan 2016, at 15:13, Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es> wrote:
> 
> On 01/24/2016 02:30 PM, dr. Hans van der Meer wrote:
>> I would like to differentiate on the following character being one of  X or not X.
>> But cannot get it right in \doifnextcharelse.
>> 
>> For example 
>> \def\mynextchar{\doifnextcharelse{X}{\def\Next{Y}}{\def\Next{Z}}\Next} delivers: ZX ZQ
>> then input: \mynextchar X \mynextchar Q
>> I hoped for YX ZQ, but it looks as if X tested false against X.
>> 
>> How to?
> 
> Hans,
> 
> the basic \def\mynextchar{\doifnextcharelse{x}{y}{z}} works.
> 
> With your sample:
> 
>    \def\mynextchar{
>        \doifnextcharelse{X}
>        {\def\Next{Y}\Next}
>        {\def\Next{Z}\Next}}
> 
> I hope it helps,
> 
> 
> Pablo
> -- 
> http://www.ousia.tk


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-24 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-24 13:30 doifnextcharelse dr. Hans van der Meer
2016-01-24 14:13 ` doifnextcharelse Pablo Rodriguez
2016-01-24 14:58   ` Meer, Hans van der [this message]
2016-01-24 18:15     ` doifnextcharelse Meer, Hans van der
2016-01-24 18:21     ` doifnextcharelse Wolfgang Schuster

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