I didn't miss that argument, of course, my actual code was:
\margindata[outer][hoffset=\marginoffset]
dr. Hans van der Meer
> On 15 Jul 2020, at 22:10, Wolfgang Schuster
> <wolfgang.schuster.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hans van der Meer schrieb am 15.07.2020 um 21:48:
>> Using the following:
>> \margindata{some macro expansions}
>
> You're missing the first mandatory argument, e.g. \margindata[inright]{...}.
>
>> I know that \margindata is typeset at a later moment than its place in the
>> code suggests. The problem is that macro expansions inside the {}'s are
>> expanded twice. This interferes badly with the things I want to happen.
>
> No, the content is stored in a box and placed later.
>
> \definecounter[test]
>
> \starttext
>
> \dorecurse{10}
> {\inleft{\incrementedcounter[test]}Line \recurselevel\par}
>
> \stoptext
>
>> Tracing what happens, I conclude that the result of the first expansion is
>> lost and is not carried into the actual placement of the marginnote.
>> The question this is: how to solve this problem?
>
> Provide a working minimal example.
>
> Wolfgang
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