At 01:20 AM 12/7/2001 -0500, F. Miller Maley wrote:
>Hans Hagen wrote:
> > Say that I patch a macro :
> >
> > \unprotected \def\dolijstelement#1#2#3#4#5#6% pas op: wordt ook elders
> > gedefinieerd
> > {\doiftoclevelelse[#5]
> > {\def\currentlist{#1}%
> > \ifundefined{\??li\currentlist\c!huidige}\else
> > \doif{#3}\currentheadnumber
> > {\edef\currentlist{\getvalue{\??li\currentlist\c!huidige}}}%
> > \fi
> > \dodolijstelement\currentlist{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6}}
> > {}}
> >
> > (this assumes a version where \currentheadnumber is known)
> > etc.
>
>After considerable hacking, I got this to work! It didn't work as written
>for various reasons, mainly having to do (as far as I could tell) with the
>order in which things are expanded, and the \ifundefined ... \else ... \fi
>confusing TeX about \if...\fi nesting.
ah, but this is not a problem in the latest version -)
>Anyway, the most serious problem
>was that \currentheadnumber expands to a single number, but argument #3
>is usually something like 1.2 or 1.2.3, the details depending on the level
>and the "stopper". I can hack around this problem in specific cases but
>I don't have a general solution yet. One plan would be to expand
>\headnumber[#1] and compare it with #3, but \headnumber (or rather
>\kopnummer) seems to be protected from expansion in eTeX.
hm. here \currentheadnumber gives the full number,
\chapter{Test} \currentheadnumber
\section{Test} \currentheadnumber
Hans
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