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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: setupinteraction and macroexpansion
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:42:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ADC6791-A24A-4EBB-8A87-0A0CF86B4559@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <275798233.20120619103939@gmx.de>


Am 19.06.2012 um 10:39 schrieb Andreas Schneider:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm  a bit lost with macro expansion here. I try to use some macros to
> set  the title (and subject) of the PDF document. The attached minimal
> example shows what I want to achieve.
> 
> I tried def, edef, gdef, define, explicit expand, expandoneafter, etc.
> etc.  without  any  success. Whatever I do, the title field in the PDF
> metadata  always  contains  the  raw "\date..." command instead of the
> formatted date.
> 
> Any suggestions?

You can’t use \date (or any other unexpandable command) in an expandable context.

Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-19  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-19  8:39 Andreas Schneider
2012-06-19  8:42 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2012-06-19  8:59   ` Andreas Schneider
2012-06-19  9:08     ` Wolfgang Schuster

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