I'm not sure if my mind is twisted enough! I can follow how Jairo's answer works, and that does what I need it to, but it's not as clear to me what the last two TeX-only approaches are doing at a low level. Perhaps more importantly, I should clarify that for my purposes, the \MyOuter macro is the \currentbtxrighttext macro, which is defined in a separate module that I'd prefer not to modify. I want to be able to detect and parse the parameters of a \loc macro that a user can specify in a citation as follows: ``` \cite[lefttext={See}, righttext={\loc[vol=8,p=223] for further details}][clementinehomilies] ``` Because the locator parameters may need to be parenthesized or formatted differently depending on the category of the bibliography entry, they should be typeset separately from the plain part of the righttext. This is why I'd like to be able to parse the parameters and then expand the \loc macro itself as empty when the righttext is typeset. Joey On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 4:19 PM Hans Hagen via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
On 11/16/2021 9:09 PM, Jairo A. del Rio via ntg-context wrote:
If I understand it correctly, you may need something like this...?
% Protection is key \protected\def\inner[#1]{\empty} % \outer is (or was) already defined in \CONTEXT % Please use another name \def\Outer{\inner[123] and \inner[some text] etc.} \startluacode local implement = interfaces.implement local argument = tokens.scanners.argument local function parseinner() local r = {} local str = argument() str = str:gsub("\\inner%s*(%b[])",function(s)r[#r+1] = s:sub(2,#s-1)end) context(table.concat(r," ")) -- Change " " by another spacer if needed end implement{name = "parseinner", public = true, actions = parseinner} \stopluacode \starttext \parseinner{\Outer} \stoptext
However, this will only work with very simple cases (no nesting, etc.). Hope this helps. well, if we start talking weird code ...
\starttext
\tolerant\def\MyInnerOuter#1\MyInner[#2]#3\MyDone\ignorearguments{#2}
\def\MyOuter#1{\MyInnerOuter#1\MyDone\ignorearguments}
whatever: \MyOuter{\MyInner[oeps]}\par whatever: \MyOuter{\InnerMy[oeps]}\par
\edef\ItWorksA{\MyOuter{\MyInner[oeps]}} \edef\ItWorksB{\MyOuter{\InnerMy[oeps]}}
whatever: \meaningless\ItWorksA\par whatever: \meaningless\ItWorksB\par
\stoptext
(1) we're tolerant so no problem when no match (2) the ignore hack quits scanning because tex will keep looking
it's pretty fast and needs no lua magic, only a twisted mind
Hans
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