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From: "Peter Münster" <pmlists@free.fr>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: setvalue/setvariable (was: Re: Remove leading spaces)
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:55:52 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0902052151560.13399@gaston.couberia.bzh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0B4DB4E0-89BE-4EAE-A3E1-2371378C177B@gmail.com>

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> A faster version of your macro is:
> 
> \def\MyFunction
>  {\dosingleempty\doMyFunction}
> 
> \def\doMyFunction[#1]%
>  {\removeunwantedspaces\executeifdefined{myfunction:#1}{\getvalue{myfunction:default}}}
> 
> \setvalue{myfunction:1}{\medspace dog }
> \setvalue{myfunction:2}{\medspace cat }
> \setvalue{myfunction:default}{\ldots}

Hello,

I'm working now a lot with \setvariable and \getvariable. What are the
advantages/disadvantages of set/get-value over set/get-variable?

Cheers, Peter

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-05 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-05 20:26 Remove leading spaces Bart C. Wise
2009-02-05 20:36 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-05 20:50   ` Bart Wise
2009-02-05 20:55   ` Peter Münster [this message]
2009-02-05 21:08     ` setvalue/setvariable Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-05 21:37       ` setvalue/setvariable Wolfgang Schuster

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