Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On Mar 29, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> in one of Luigi's "Grid-keeping table"-mail I saw the term
>> "\setbox100". I didn't try that code, don't know what it means.
>> But it gave me the idea: is it actually possible to use numbers in
>> defining command's names?
>>
>> Something like this ...
>>
>> \setuphead[Level2]
>> [header=empty,page=yes,numbercommand=
>> \Level2Command,align=middle,alternative=paragraph,style=
>> \Level2Style,before={\strut\blank[42pt]},after={\blank[12pt]}]
>> \setuphead[Level3]
>> [header=empty,page=yes,numbercommand=
>> \Level3Command,align=middle,alternative=paragraph,style=
>> \Level3Style,before={\strut\blank[42pt]},after={\blank[12pt]}]
>>
>> ... looks much clearer than using the numbers written out in letters.
>>
>> Steffen
>>
>
> The command is \setbox, 100 is the argument to this command. This is
> pure \TeX, I think it could also be written as \setbox{100} (but I
> may be wrong here). In \TeX, numbers have a catcode which is
> different from letters, that's why they cannot normally be used in
> command words (they can, however, become control symbols). For more,
> see the TeXbook, chapter 3, or Eijkhout's wonderful TeX by Topic, ch. 2.
>
>
\setvalue{abc123}#1{\framed{#1}}
numbercommand=\getvalue{abc123}
should work
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