Sorry. me again...and I have been all over the wiki, mailing lists and manuals...<div><br></div><div>I have this:</div><div><br></div><div>\setlayer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span>[progresssteps]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span>% name of the layer</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">		</span>[hoffset=904 px, voffset= 28\nuggetnumber px]  % placement (from upper left corner of the layer)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">		</span>{\stepstack}  % the actual contents of the layer</div>
<div><br></div><div>And I am hoping that as I increase nuggetnumber the voffset of the layer will be 28*nuggetnumber</div><div><br></div><div>I am setting nuggetnumber like this for the moment:</div><div><br></div><div>\def \nuggetnumber{3}</div>
<div><br></div><div>(in the other dev document it is the result of counter, so set dynamically) </div><div><br></div><div>and this in the text</div><div><br></div><div>\nuggetnumber</div><div><br></div><div>which compiles to &#39;3&#39;, so I assume the assignment is good to go.</div>
<div><br></div><div>varying both nuggetnumber and the scale factor (28) shift the layer up and down, but not in a way that suggests that 28\nuggetnumber is being evaluated as a product (so a scale factor of 7 and a nuggetnumber of 2 do not give the same output as a scale factor of 2 and a nuggetnumber of 7).</div>
<div><br></div><div>So I am led to think that there is something in the evaluating that is going wrong - data types / units? (if I hard code in the results I am expecting, say 28 px, 56 px or 84 px then I get exactly what I want...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks, as ever</div><div><br></div><div>(Same result in ConTEXt ii or iv)</div><div>Ian</div>