Am 06.06.2013 um 09:56 schrieb Jaroslav Hajtmar :

Hello ConTeXist. Is there in ConTeXt any dirty trick, which can put more than 9 parameters into macro?

I mean for example \define[25]\macrowithtwentyfiveparams{ .... }

There are a few tricks when you need more then nine parameters but it’s better to use a different method to pass argument from one command to another. Better and more readable solutions are intermediate commands for each value or assignment lists (a=x,b=y,…).

I use rarely any trick from Peter Olsak (see below) and I'd like something like that used in ConTeXt.

Thanx Jaroslav Hajtmar

Here is minimal example of trick of Petr Olsak:

\newcount\tempnum \def\terminator{*} \newcount\tempnum \def\readparameters{\tempnum=0\let\next=\readone \next} \def\readone #1,{\advance\tempnum by 1 \def\param{#1}% %\the\tempnum - \param\par% \ifx\param\terminator \let\next=\relax \else\expandafter\gdef\csname param\the\tempnum\endcsname{#1}% \fi\next}

\def\moreparameters#1{% \readparameters #1 % \csname param1\endcsname, % write first parameter \csname param3\endcsname, % write third parameter \csname param5\endcsname, % write fifth parameter }

\starttext

%\readparameters a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,m,n,o,*, % %\def\parameters{aaa,bbbb,cccc,dddd,eeeee,fffff,ggggg,*,} %\expandafter\readparameters\parameters

\moreparameters{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,m,n,o,*,}

\stoptext

Can be simplified with \processcommalist: \starttext \def\domoreparameters#1% {\advance\scratchcounter\plusone \setvalue{param\number\scratchcounter}{#1}} \def\moreparameters[#1]% {\scratchcounter\zerocount \processcommalist[#1]\domoreparameters} \moreparameters[a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,m,n,o] \getvalue{param1}, \getvalue{param2}, \getvalue{param3} \stoptext Wolfgang