That works great.  Now I have defined a global numeric<br><br>N:=8;<br><br>in \startMPinclusions ... \stopMPinclusions at the be beginning of my document.  All of my \startMPpage ... \stopMPpage environments understand this N, but how do I reference this value as the start value for  \dostepwiserecurse?  That is, I would like to do something like<br>
<br>\dostepwiserecurse{N}{0}{-1}{ ... &lt;some code&gt; ... }<br><br>Troy<br>