-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [NTG-context] expansion and variables Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:10:23 +0200 From: Hans Hagen To: Henning Hraban Ramm On 7/17/2024 10:40 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

Something’s wrong with my code. I’ll try to keep a status to output a certain marker only the first time after a change. With the code below I get it never.

I guess it’s an expansion problem again, but I didn’t find the right places for \expanded – if I use it in front of every \getvariable, I get the output every time.

Please help… Hraban

\setevariable

\setvariable{Thing}{Status}{1} \setvariable{Thing}{PreviousStatus}{0}

\define[1]\startThing{   \setvariable{Thing}{PreviousStatus}{\getvariable{Thing}{Status}}   \setvariable{Thing}{Status}{#1}   <<< %

\doifnot{\getvariable{Thing}{Status}}{\getvariable{Thing}{PreviousStatus}}{%     \bold{\getvariable{Thing}{Status}}%   }% }

\def\stopThing{>>>\par}

\starttext

\startThing{A} a \stopThing \startThing{B} b \stopThing \startThing{A} c \stopThing \startThing{C} d \stopThing \startThing{C} e \stopThing \startThing{A} f \stopThing \startThing{A} g \stopThing \startThing{A} h \stopThing

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