[NTG-context] system macros/doquadrupleemtpy

3 Sep 2008

      Hi all,

I'm trying to define a macro \Command which can either have four or  
five arguments. If it has five, I want to define them as

\Command1[#1][#2][#3][#4]{#5}

if it has four, as

\Command2[#1][#2][#3]{4#}

I thought this would be the way to go:

\def\Command{%
	\doquadrupleempty\doCommand}

\def\doCommand{%
  	\iffifthargument%
  		\doquadrupleargument\Command1%
  	\else%
  		\dotripleargument\Command2%
  	\fi}

but that gives me errors about "too many }s". So I'm wondering: am I  
on the wrong track? Can this be done at all?

Thanks, and best

Thomas

[NTG-context] system macros/doquadrupleemtpy

Thomas A. Schmitz