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From: Norbert Melzer <timmelzer@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: define macros only visible in a definestartstop-block that have arguments?
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 23:57:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+bCVsvbi3Z4i6pWY97Qt59b4M2skmO8XB0zkjqSdKadYZg8_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <550C498C.6000505@wxs.nl>


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OK, took me a while to figure out that this was not an empty response but
an attachement was available ;)

I did a quick test run and realized that it seems to do what I want, I'll
take a further look into it tommorrow, thank you!

2015-03-20 17:23 GMT+01:00 Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>:

> On 3/20/2015 12:05 PM, Norbert Melzer wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have trouble to define macros which are only visible inside a block
>> defined using `\definestartstop`:
>>
>> ```tex
>> \setuppapersize[A6]
>> \definestartstop[Foo][before={Foo}]
>> \definestartstop[Bar][before={\bgroup\define\Foo{Foo}},after={\egroup}]
>> %\definestartstop[Baz][before={\bgroup\define[1]\Foo{Foo#1}}
>> ,after={\egroup}]
>>
>> \starttext
>>    \startFoo
>>      Bar
>>    \stopFoo
>>
>>    \startBar
>>      \Foo Bar
>>    \stopBar
>>
>> %  \startBaz
>> %    \Foo{Bar}
>> %  \stopBaz
>> \stoptext
>> ```
>>
>> The code as above works and typesets "FooBar" on two separate lines. But
>> if I uncomment everything `Baz`-related, I end up with the following
>> error:
>>
>> ```plain
>> tex error       > error on line 4 in file C:/HIDDEN/mwe.tex: ! Illegal
>>   parameter number in definition of \m_syst_action_yes
>> <to be read again>
>> 1
>> <argument> ...{Baz}][{before={\bgroup \define [1]\Foo {Foo##1
>>                                                    }},after={\egroup }}]
>> \doifnextoptionalelse ...ef \m_syst_action_yes {#1
>>                                                    }\def
>> \m_syst_action_nop {...
>> l.4 ...bgroup\define[1]\Foo{Foo#1}},after={\egroup}]
>>   1     \setuppapersize[A6]
>>   2     \definestartstop[Foo][before={Foo}]
>>   3
>> \definestartstop[Bar][before={\bgroup\define\Foo{Foo}},after={\egroup}]
>>   4 >>
>>   \definestartstop[Baz][before={\bgroup\define[1]\Foo{Foo#1}},
>> after={\egroup}]
>>   5
>>   6     \starttext
>>   7       \startFoo
>>   8         Bar
>>   9       \stopFoo
>> 10
>> 11       \startBar
>> 12         \Foo Bar
>> 13       \stopBar
>> 14
>> ```
>>
>> Can someone help me get this running?
>>
>>
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      reply	other threads:[~2015-03-20 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-20 11:05 Norbert Melzer
2015-03-20 16:23 ` Hans Hagen
2015-03-20 22:57   ` Norbert Melzer [this message]

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