Wednesday, December 05, 2001 Tobias Burnus wrote:

TB> Hi,

TB> I have a nice document where I need to perform small calculation (actually
TB> only calculating the average value):
TB>  if((#1+#2+#3) != 0)
TB>    (#1*1 + #2*2 + #3*3)/(#1+#2+#3)
TB>  else
TB>    "--"

TB> Now I was thinking where I could do so in TeX. (I think there are some
TB> macros in ConTeXt, but I cannot find them.)

e-TeX has some arithmetic primitives. Don't know if they are
somehow wrapped in ConTeXt, though.

TB> If there is no good solution I will write a script which calculates this
TB> values and does a inline replacement of the data. -- This is not that
TB> error save since one needs to make sure that this script is run before
TB> texexec...

I'll take the chance to reiterate the need for a plug-in (module)
structure in TeXUtil ...

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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