Wednesday, August 27, 2003 Peter Rolf wrote: PR> Hello all, PR> I have problems to understand the command (parameter) mechanism of context. PR> My experiments with \getparameters didn't work, so I used PR> \xdescgetparameters PR> from Giuseppe Bilotta (t-xdesc.tex). PR> In my eyes they look the same, but \xdescgetparameters works with my sample PR> code, \getparameters don't. Mhhh.... PR> % t-xdesc.tex PR> \def\xdescsetvalue#1#2{\expandafter\def\csname#1#2\endcsname} PR> \def\xdescgetparameters{\dogetparameters\xdescsetvalue} PR> % syst-gen.tex PR> \def\dosetvalue#1#2% #3 PR> {\@EA\def\csname#1#2\endcsname} % {#3}} PR> \def\getparameters {\dogetparameters\dosetvalue} PR> This leads me to my two questions: PR> What must I change, to make my test example run with \getparameters? The trick is in mult-ini.tex, which redefines dosetvalue & co to support the multilingual interface; this is a problem when you want to get raw (unconverted) keyword/value sets, which is why it fails. ConTeXt used to have "raw" version of the do..value commands, but they disappeared at one point. Yes, they should be re-introduced. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta