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From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
To: mailing ConTeXt users list for <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: system macros/doquadrupleemtpy
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:41:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F55E008D-0D0E-4826-8B16-0A7EC3B2D6CD@uni-bonn.de> (raw)

Hi all,

I'm trying to define a macro \Command which can either have four or  
five arguments. If it has five, I want to define them as

\Command1[#1][#2][#3][#4]{#5}

if it has four, as

\Command2[#1][#2][#3]{4#}

I thought this would be the way to go:

\def\Command{%
	\doquadrupleempty\doCommand}

\def\doCommand{%
  	\iffifthargument%
  		\doquadrupleargument\Command1%
  	\else%
  		\dotripleargument\Command2%
  	\fi}

but that gives me errors about "too many }s". So I'm wondering: am I  
on the wrong track? Can this be done at all?

Thanks, and best

Thomas
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             reply	other threads:[~2008-09-03 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-03 14:41 Thomas A. Schmitz [this message]
2008-09-03 16:58 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-09-04  7:39   ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-09-03 18:32 ` Peter Rolf
2008-09-04  6:45 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-09-04  8:21   ` Thomas A. Schmitz

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