Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: append to buffer

2010-12-19 Thread Thomas Schmitz
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:35:53 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 18.12.2010 um 17:52 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: I am not sure what you want to do, and why you want to use buffers. Wont a simple token list work? I can only agree with this, token lists are the

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: append to buffer

2010-12-19 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, Dec 19 2010, Thomas Schmitz wrote: and this doesn't: \newtoks\mytoks \def\TestMacro#1#2#3% {\item[#1] #2\par \appendtoks \in[#1]: {#3} \to\mytoks} \doglobal \appendtoks \in[#1]: {#3} \to\mytoks} Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: append to buffer

2010-12-19 Thread Thomas Schmitz
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:21:26 +0100 Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr wrote: On Sun, Dec 19 2010, Thomas Schmitz wrote: and this doesn't: \newtoks\mytoks \def\TestMacro#1#2#3% {\item[#1] #2\par \appendtoks \in[#1]: {#3} \to\mytoks} \doglobal \appendtoks \in[#1]: {#3} \to\mytoks}

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: append to buffer

2010-12-19 Thread Thomas Schmitz
Hooray, not it works!!! s/not/now/ Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: append to buffer

2010-12-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 19-12-2010 12:28, Thomas Schmitz wrote: So: I have been trying to write a macro that will retrieve problems from the database (successful, with help by Hans), pack them in an itemize list (successful), and store the solution somewhere so it can be typeset Why do you store the solutions if

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: append to buffer

2010-12-19 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, Dec 19 2010, Thomas Schmitz wrote: easy, yet my knowledge of TeX wasn't advanced enough to see this. Is it because I'm inside a group and TeX empties the tokenlist once I get out of the group? In this case yes, because the list was empty before the group. In general you get the value,

[NTG-context] mkiv: append to buffer

2010-12-18 Thread Thomas Schmitz
Hi all, i guess this is easy, but I can't find an example to help me: I want to write a macro that will collect one of its arguments in a buffer and then collect the other argument in a buffer. Difficult to make a minimal example since I don't know how to do this, so here is some pseudo-code;

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: append to buffer

2010-12-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Thomas Schmitz wrote: i guess this is easy, but I can't find an example to help me: I want to write a macro that will collect one of its arguments in a buffer and then collect the other argument in a buffer. Difficult to make a minimal example since I don't know how to do

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: append to buffer

2010-12-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.12.2010 um 17:52 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: I am not sure what you want to do, and why you want to use buffers. Wont a simple token list work? I can only agree with this, token lists are the easiest solution but the new cld manuals mentions the “context.tobuffer” function which allows