Re: macro that does not work (Metapost)

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 2/11/2020 11:50 AM, Fabrice Couvreur wrote:
> Hi,
> I have some problems with the following macro :
> 
> tex error       > mp error on line 23 in file /home/viserion/macro.tex:
> 
> ! Missing argument to suite.
> <to be read again>
> {
> <*> suite{
> 1,0}; suite(2,1); ;
> That macro has more parameters than you thought.
> I'll continue by pretending that each missing argument
> is either zero or null.
> 
> ! Missing argument to suite.
> <to be read again>
> {
> <*> suite{
> 1,0}; suite(2,1); ;
> That macro has more parameters than you thought.
> I'll continue by pretending that each missing argument
> is either zero or null.


{} instead of ()

> ! Extra tokens will be flushed.
> <to be read again>
> {
> <*> suite{
> 1,0}; suite(2,1); ;
> I've just read as much of that statement as I could fathom,
> so a semicolon should have been next. It's very puzzling...
> but I'll try to get myself back together, by ignoring
> everything up to the next `;'. Please insert a semicolon
> now in front of anything that you don't want me to delete.
> (See Chapter 27 of The METAFONTbook for an example.)
> 
> [1]
> 
> 13       enddef;
> 14     \stopMPcode
> 15     \starttext
> 16      On présente ci-dessous deux suites de dessins.
> 17           \startlinecorrection[blank]
> 18             \startmidaligned
> 19               \startcombination[2*1]
> 20                 {\startMPcode
> 21                   suite{1,0};
> 22                   suite(2,1);
> 23 >>               \stopMPcode}{\tfxx \bf Suite 2}
> 24           \stopcombination
> 25             \stopmidaligned
> 26           \stoplinecorrection
> 27     \stoptext
> 
> mtx-context     | fatal error: return code: 256
> 
> TeX Output exited abnormally with code 1 at Tue Feb 11 11:45:53
> 
> ##################################################
> macro.tex
> ##################################################
> 
> \startMPcode
>    def suite (expr n, t) =
>    begingroup
>     numeric u;
>     u := 5mm;
>     pickup pencircle scaled 4pt;
>     for i=0 upto n:
>       for j=0 upto n:
>           drawdot (i*u,j*u) shifted(t*u,0) withcolor darkred;
>       endfor
>     endfor
>    endgroup
>    enddef;
> \stopMPcode
> \starttext
>   On présente ci-dessous deux suites de dessins.
>        \startlinecorrection[blank]
>          \startmidaligned
>            \startcombination[2*1]
>              {\startMPcode
>                suite{1,0};
>                suite(2,1);
>               \stopMPcode}{\tfxx \bf Suite 2}
>        \stopcombination
>          \stopmidaligned
>        \stoplinecorrection
> \stoptext
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> Fabrice
> 
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