2008/10/25 Marcin Borkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dnia Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 02:58:24AM +0200, Diego Depaoli napisał(a): > This code seems to work (approximately) like this: it expands the "full" > reference, which is: > <number> <dot> <number> <dot> <something, probably space> > and selects "everything from the first dot up to the second one (w/o the > dots themselves). So I consider it to be a bit dirty hack (sorry, > Wolfgang;)), in a sense that it is not very flexible. Thanks for clarification, here I begin to understand
> If your stopper is, say ")" (and the second one, say, "]", so you have > references in a strange form like "1)2]"), you might want to say > something like > \def\doItemNumber #1)#2]#3\relax mmmm... I tried before posting... doesn't work > \edef\sometemporarymacroname{% > \def\noexpand\doItemNumber ##1\stopper ##2\stopperr ##3\relax > {\noexpand\doifelsenothing{##2} > {##1} > {##2}}% > }% > \sometemporarymacroname Here I stop understand and I can't get this code working. Could you give me a full example? > I'm not sure whether this works, though, *please* check it and tell me > (maybe I'm doing some stupid error, please the TeX gurus correct me if > yes). I hope this is ok, though, because then it my first post to this > list containing actually an _answer_ and not a _question_:))). This time will never come for me. Cheers -- Diego Depaoli ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________