hi list,

skip to the many %%% if you just want to help me ;)

i need to make a macro which consists of ten optional arguments. it wouldn’t be too ugly to require to write the following to use it, since it outputs a 3×3 matrix with an adjacent tenth item, but tex can’t handle ten arguments afaik.


syntax idea:
empty:
\bigcrafting%
{}{}{}%
{}{}{}{}%
{}{}{}%

partly filled:
\bigcrafting%
{}{}{}%
{planks}{planks}{}{workbench}%
{planks}{planks}{}%

how it should look:


ok, since using empty “required” arguments aren’t elegent, either, i wanted to get into key=value sets, but ran into the next problem:

i wanted to instead define bigcrafting to work like this:
\bigcrafting
  [21=planks, 22=planks,
   31=planks, 32=planks]
  [workbench]

but \getparameters can’t handle numerical values.

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