On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 at 18:27, Wolfgang Schuster < wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
Sylvain Hubert schrieb am 08.11.2020 um 17:56:
Hi Wolfgang,
I'm sorry that the question was not clear enough. Let me ask in this way: how to define a \dorecurse, such that \dorecurse{10}{\type{a b c}} does not squash the spaces?
Verbatim in arguments of other commands is tricky because in case with \dorecurse the loop reads the content before it is passed to type, as a result of this process all spaces are collapsed.
One way to work around this is to use a buffer for the content of the loop.
\startbuffer[type] \type{a b c} \stopbuffer
\starttext \dorecurse{10}{\inlinebuffer[type]\par} \stoptext
Many thanks for the answer! It seems that the buffer mechanism is quite a powerful resort for the macro language. Sylvain