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From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	Jon Wong <jhannwong@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: doifsomething vs iffirstargument in TABLE?
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 17:23:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2a2d14a-7388-25e9-12d7-5858e6bf8f63@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CD017B5A-D98F-4BDB-ABAA-C201BF363FFB@gmail.com>

Jon Wong schrieb am 12.09.2019 um 15:44:
> Hi all,
>
> If I use iffirstargument, the optional (first argument) is always seen as false.
>
> If I use doifsomething, it works, but the “else” part is never executed when it should.
>
> MWE:
>
> \starttext
>
> % \def\MyRow{\dosingleempty\doMyRow}
> % \def\doMyRow[#1]#2#3#4#5{%
> %   \bTR \bTD #2 \eTD %
The \bTD command for the cell content has an optional argument
which changes the value of the firstargument conditional and your
check below uses the result from \bTD.
> %   \iffirstargument
> %     \bTD Replaced! \eTD %
> %   \else
> %     \bTD #3 \eTD %
> %   \fi
> %   \bTD #4 \eTD \bTD #5 \eTD \eTR
> % }
>
> \def\MyRow{\dosingleempty\doMyRow}
> \def\doMyRow[#1]#2#3#4#5{%
>    \bTR \bTD #2 \eTD %
>    \doifsomething{#1}
\doifsomethingelse{#1}
>      {\bTD Replaced! \eTD }%
>      {\bTD #3 \eTD }%
>    \bTD #4 \eTD \bTD #5 \eTD \eTR
> }
>
> \bTABLE
> \bTABLEbody
> \MyRow{A}{B}{C}{D}
> \MyRow[optional]{A}{B}{C}{D}
> \eTABLEbody
> \eTABLE
>
> \stoptext
Wolfgang

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