From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: store counter or variable and reread again
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:56:39 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.0.81.0612301151040.2420@nqvgln> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45968AED.7040904@gmx.net>
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Thomas Engel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i just playing a little bit with macros.
> For adding points to a total sum i use this macros
>
> \global\newcount\summeP \summeP=0
> % ad the points of each question
> \def\getPunkte[#1]{\global\advance\summeP by \number#1}
> % show the points on the right side
> \def\showP[#1]{\inright{\hskip 10mm \framed{#1} }}
> % handle the points
> \def\pkt[#1]%
> {\showP[#1]%
> \getPunkte[#1] }
>
> this is working well but my problem is I want to use \summeP on the
> first page to show the total amount of points for the whole exam.
>
> I know that this needs a second run of texexec, but I don't know how to
> store the value at the end of the file and reread this stored value in a
> second run the get the right value.
Here is how to do the second run. I also use ConTeXt macros
(\makecounter etc) instead of plain TeX. Be careful of spurious
linebreaks.
% It may be better to use \setcounter series of macros for managing counters.
% First let us define a general macro for adding arbitrary number to a counter
\unprotect
\def\addtocounter#1#2% #1 name #2 value
{\@EA\xdef\csname#1\endcsname{\the\numexpr\csname#1\endcsname+#2\relax}}
\protect
% To Hans and Taco: Should the above macro be added to syst-ext?
% Now lets define everything in terms of ConTeXt's counter macros
% \global\newcount\summeP
\makecounter{Points}
% I changed summeP to Points just to be consistent
% \summeP=0
% \makecounter sets the value of counter to 0.
% % ad the points of each question
% \def\getPunkte[#1]{\global\advance\summeP by \number#1}
% This macro is already been defined using numexpr above.
% % show the points on the right side
\def\showP[#1]{\inright{\hskip 10mm \framed{#1} }}
% % handle the points
\def\pkt[#1]%
{\showP[#1]%
% \getPunkte[#1] }
\addtocounter{Points}{#1}}
%
% Now lets set up the two pass mechanism
\def\nofPoints{0} % Number of points from previous run
\definetwopasslist {Points} % variable where two pass data is stored
% Need to execute this at the start of each file
\def\checkPoints
{\gettwopassdata{Points} % Retreive the two pass data
\iftwopassdatafound
\xdef \nofPoints {\twopassdata}
\fi
\global\let\checkproblems\relax}
% An example usage
\starttext
\checkPoints
\title{This exam is of \nofPoints\ Points}
% Lets set 10 problems with different points
\dorecurse{10}
{\pkt[\recurselevel] \input tufte \endgraf}
% Now the rest of the magic to take care of the two pass run
% Basically this says that rerun if \nofPoints !=
% \countervalue{Points}. In the next run we set \nofPoints to the
% previous value of \countervalue{Points} (the \checkPoints macro in
% the beginning), so things should be stable after two runs.
\savetwopassdata {Points} {\nofPoints} {\countervalue{Points}}
\stoptext
HTH,
Aditya
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-30 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <45941026$0$4168$ba624c82@nntp02.dk.telia.net>
2006-12-30 14:00 ` Week number Taco Hoekwater
2006-12-30 15:51 ` store counter or variable and reread again Thomas Engel
2006-12-30 16:56 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2006-12-30 19:19 ` Peter Münster
2006-12-30 21:30 ` Aditya Mahajan
2006-12-30 22:35 ` Hans Hagen
2006-12-30 23:19 ` Aditya Mahajan
2006-12-30 23:51 ` Aditya Mahajan
2006-12-31 8:21 ` Thomas Engel
2006-12-31 17:52 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-01-01 22:28 ` Hans Hagen
2007-01-01 8:11 ` Peter Münster
2007-01-01 11:17 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-01-01 15:35 ` Peter Münster
2007-01-01 22:14 ` Hans Hagen
2007-01-02 18:38 ` Peter Münster
2007-01-04 16:43 ` Hans Hagen
2006-12-30 21:34 ` Week number Aditya Mahajan
2006-12-30 22:28 ` Hans Hagen
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