To answer my own question. I think I've solved the problem by
splitting a macros into several ones and then nesting them into each
opther. A sort of a clumsy solution but it works. Kind regards, Pavel.
2013/12/10 Pavel Stupin <stupin.pa...@gmail.com>:
> Thank you, Wolfgang! Much to my delight, \startembeddedxtable works
> indeed, however, when I increase the number of arguments up to 10
> --- to use the simplest example possible, without any tables:
> \define[10]\myText{#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10} --- it doesn't work
> again (works fine with 9 arguments). Am I correct assuming that
> there's an inherent limitation to 9 arguments only or the 2+-digit
> numbers should be written somehow differently? Is there any
> workaround?
>
> Kind regards, Pavel.
>
> 2013/12/10 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> Am 10.12.2013 um 12:23 schrieb Pavel Stupin <stupin.pa...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> I'm struggling with understanding the way \define is supposed to work.
>>> I would like to have a macros to generate tables and populate them
>>> with some specific data submitted as arguments. I apologize for my
>>> lack of understanding of the very basics, but e.g. the following code
>>> just doesn't compile:
>>>
>>> \define[1]\mytable{
>>> \startxtable
>>> \startxrow
>>> \startxcell #1 \stopxcell
>>> \stopxrow
>>> \stopxtable}
>>>
>>> \mytable{abc}
>>>
>>>
>>> I would appreciate your help and maybe some references to read (if
>>> any) in order to educate myself.
>>
>> The problem in your example isn’t define but the stable which uses a buffer
>> to collect the content and buffers and be used in \def or \define commands.
>>
>> What you can do in this case is to replace \startxtable with
>> \startembeddedxtable
>> and change your code to
>>
>> \dfeine[1]\mytable
>> {\startembeddedxtable
>> \startxrow
>> \startxcell#1\stopxcell
>> \stopxrow
>> \stopembeddedxtable}
>>
>> Wolfgang
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