Goebel, Juergen wrote: > Hi, > > Regarding the following example I've got two questions. > > (1) Why don't I ever see the argument #2 in the output? > (2) What do I have to do to suppress the unwanted space > after the end of the output of this macro (as can be seen > in the result before the following comma)? > > Regards, > > Juergen > > > \def\Geb{\dosingleempty\doMyGeb} > \def\doMyGeb[#1]#2#3{, x % > \iffirstargument% > Aha > \else > \ifsecondargument% > #2 > \else% > ... %C% > \fi > \fi > \ifthirdargument% > #3% > \else% > ...% > \fi} > > \starttext > > \Geb{Ulm}{11. 9. 2008} % should deliver x Ulm 11. 9. 2008 > \Geb[Ulm]{Ulm}{11. 9. 2008} % should deliver x Aha Ulm 11. 9. 2008 > \Geb{}{11. 9. 2008} % should deliver x ... 11. 9. 2008 > \Geb{Ulm}{} % should deliver x Ulm ... > \Geb{}{} % should deliver x ... > > \stoptext
\unexpanded\def\Geb{\dosingleempty\doMyGeb} \def\doMyGeb[#1]#2#3% {, x \iffirstargument Aha \fi \doifsomethingelse{#2}{#2}{...}\space \doifsomethingelse{#3}{#3}{...}% \par} ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________