Re: getvariable

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

Peter, I appreciate your helping me. And I have no clue what's going  
wrong.
On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:08 PM, Peter Rolf wrote:
>>
> I'm just guessing (taken from my own pile of mistakes).
> Hmm, is it a problem of setting the variable, or it's interpretation?
> Can you find out, if the variable is set correctly in your \setupcrop
> macro? Just add
>
> \writestatus{[CROP]}{crop mark is: \getvariable{Crop}{mark}}%

For debugging, I've narrowed the module down to 8 lines:

\def\setupcrop{\setvariables[Crop]}

\setvariables[Crop][mark=cross,info=yes]

\processaction[\getvariable{Crop}{mark}][
   camera =>\def\PageBackground{\CameraMarks},
   cross  =>\def\PageBackground{\CrossMarks},
   default=>\def\PageBackground{},
   unknown=>\def\PageBackground{}]%

\writestatus{[CROP]}{crop mark is: \getvariable{Crop}{mark}}

my testfile:

\usemodule[t-crop]
\setupcrop[mark=camera,info=yes]

\starttext

Hello!

\stoptext

Output in log:

(/Users/tas/Library/texmf/tex/t-crop.tex
[CROP]          : crop mark is: cross

If second line of module is commented out, I get:

[CROP]          : crop mark is:

So it's a problem of actually setting the variable.

>
>
> The error can't hide forever ;)
>
Maybe it can't hide forever, but it looks like it can run...

Thanks for your help. I'll be away tomorrow and will try more on the  
weekend.

Best

Thomas