After some debugging, the example code I offered above seems to work, with
minor adjustments:
\begingroup
\let\loc\loctextloc
\currentbtxloctext
\btxcomma
\endgroup
Thanks again for all the help!
Joey
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 12:11 PM Joey McCollum
wrote:
> Okay. So using this example as a
Okay. So using this example as a template, I'd like to do the following:
- define a general-purpose \loc macro that can be invoked in the main
text (i.e., outside of citations) in the usual way; this one would
correspond to \WhateverB above and would not remove punctuation preceding
On 11/28/2021 2:39 AM, Joey McCollum wrote:
I was afraid that might be the problem. I've described some of the
intended purpose of this code near the end of the "Checking for a macro > ...
Maybe play with:
\starttext
\def\WhateverA{\removeunwantedspaces\removepunctuation\space ¶ 1.23}
I was afraid that might be the problem. I've described some of the intended
purpose of this code near the end of the "Checking for a macro in a string
without expanding it" thread on the mailing list, but I will get into more
detail here. I'm working on a ConTeXt implementation of citation style
On 11/27/2021 6:13 PM, Joey McCollum wrote:
All right, I think I've solved the expansion problem I described before:
to ensure that the first input is expanded when it is passed to Lua, I
have to pass it as [==[#1]==], not "#1". But the updated MWE below still
does not seem to work, as the
All right, I think I've solved the expansion problem I described before: to
ensure that the first input is expanded when it is passed to Lua, I have to
pass it as [==[#1]==], not "#1". But the updated MWE below still does not
seem to work, as the \DoIfPrefixElse macro is printing "NOP" instead of
Thanks! Invoking string.find(str,"^"..pre) is certainly much easier. This
sort of thing would be a nice general-purpose helper function. Denis Maier
and I should have a "wish list" of desired helpers and features (mostly
related to bibliographies/publication support) ready for you (and Alan)
On 11/26/2021 7:42 AM, Joey McCollum via ntg-context wrote:
I wasn't aware of a general-purpose "doifstartswith" macro in ConTeXt
(the \doifnextcharelse macro only works one character at a time, and the
\doifinstring macros may capture substrings that are not prefixes), and
I'd like to develop
I wasn't aware of a general-purpose "doifstartswith" macro in ConTeXt (the
\doifnextcharelse macro only works one character at a time, and the
\doifinstring macros may capture substrings that are not prefixes), and I'd
like to develop one for something I'm working on. I've been trying to do
this
