[NTG-context] getcommalistsize

2006-01-22 Thread Hans van der Meer
I wanted to do something with the length of a commalist but found that it macro \getcommalistsize does not seem to respond. Here is a small test: \starttext \def\showcommalist#1{commalist=(#1)\crlf (size=\getcommalistsize[#1])\crlf

Re: [NTG-context] getcommalistsize

2006-01-22 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: As can be seen the macro \getcommalistsize does not give a value back, \processcommalist works. Am I doing something wrong here or understood it wrong? \getcommalistsize puts its result (the length of the commalist) in \commalistsize, but does not expand to

Re: [NTG-context] getcommalistsize

2006-01-22 Thread Hans van der Meer
Thanks, I was right in suspecting I did not completely understand the effect of \getcommalistsize. It is clear now. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer On Jan 22, 2006, at 18:06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: As can be seen the macro \getcommalistsize does not give a