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From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: "Xavier B." <somenxavier@posteo.net>,
	mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@freedom.nl>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Triaging tikz error: Cannot parse this coordinate
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 13:41:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ad79c24-75a7-8e7f-83fd-f90eacc9f945@freedom.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230809130016.a41b4dab1957f7ca865714f1@posteo.net>

On 8/9/2023 1:00 PM, Xavier B. wrote:
> Yes. The problem is syntactic: with
> \startscope[shift={(\p)}]
> 
> it works.
that's one way to look at it, kind of  like

   (10,20) shifted (((((10,100)))))

which looks somewhat weird (does {((((\p))))} actually work?)

one can wonder why the coordinate is not expanded without encapsulating 
() which should not that hard to do

Hans


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-09 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-08 16:13 [NTG-context] " Xavier B.
2023-08-08 17:43 ` [NTG-context] " Hans Hagen
2023-08-08 18:57   ` Hans Hagen
2023-08-09  8:02     ` Henri Menke via ntg-context
2023-08-08 18:59   ` Xavier B.
2023-08-08 19:52     ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
     [not found]       ` <20230809130016.a41b4dab1957f7ca865714f1@posteo.net>
2023-08-09 11:41         ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2023-08-08 19:13   ` Hans Hagen

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