Hi Aditya, yes, looking at the .tuo did the trick. :-D
I had tried things with expanded already, but at that time I still had > {\expanded{\Issue[\IssueCounter]{Issue~\IssueCounter:}{\currentdate}}} as command. Which does NOT work (due to the tilde ~ resulting in an error message then) The rest was actually fine. Now, without it (i.e. "~") it works! ... {\expanded{\Issue[\IssueCounter]{Issue: \IssueCounter:}{\currentdate}}} ... Thanks a lot, that had me seriously baffled ;-) Carsten On 12.01.2008 at 23:29 wrote Aditya Mahajan: > Hi Carsten, > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Carsten Fechtmann wrote: > >> What this all burns down is, that I /really/ would like to >> understand, >> how I can pass a value from a counter as (constant) argument to a >> self- >> defined function. As that seems to be the core of the matter/problem >> here. > > You need to understand how synonyms work. It writes enteries to the > tuo > file, and then uses that in the second pass to sort things. One way to > make sure that you have the correct entry in the tuo file is to use > expanded: > > \definesynonyms[Issue][issues][\IssueText][\IssueDate] > \setupsynonyms[Issue][criterium=all] > > \newcounter\IssueCounter > > \def\NewIssue{\dosingleargument\doNewIssue} > > \def\doNewIssue[#1]% > {\increment\IssueCounter > %Debug: \IssueCounter / \getnumber[IssueNumber]% > \doifelsenothing{#1} > {\expanded{\Issue[\IssueCounter]{\IssueCounter}{\currentdate}}} > {\expanded{\Issue[\IssueCounter]{\IssueCounter}{#1}}}} > > % Compare the tuo file with and without expanded and you will know > what is > % happening. > > \starttext > \NewIssue[January 9, 2008] > \NewIssue[January 10, 2008] > \NewIssue % January 11, 2008 > > List of issue \# and dates: > > \placelistofissues \blank > > \IssueDate{\IssueCounter} % produces correct result in either case > > \stoptext > > Aditya > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________