[NTG-context] How to \processcommalist inside another commalist?

[Hans Hagen]

nico wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:35:27 +0200, Mojca Miklavec  
> <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>> %% Why using parameter for this?
>>>       
>> I was sure that someone would ask that. I want to provide optional
>> parameters for both numbers and scaling:
>>     \useGNUPLOTgraphic[name]
>> or
>>     \useGNUPLOTgraphic[name][width=.9\textwidth]
>> or
>>     \useGNUPLOTgraphic[name][n={1,3}]
>> or
>>     \useGNUPLOTgraphic[name][n={1,3},width=.9\textwidth]
>>
>> but after some thinking I realized that it would indeed be a better
>> idea (less to type?) to have
>>     \useGNUPLOTgraphic[name][1,3]
>> and
>>     \useGNUPLOTgraphic[name][1,3][width=.9\textwidth]
>> instead.
>>
>> At the beginning the main reason against it was that I didn't know how
>> to distinguish which kind of parameters are being used in the second
>> pair of brackets, but I guess that I can safely use \ifnumberelse as a
>> test on the first item to distinguish between the two.
>>     
>
> Maybe you could play only with the parameter count. The limitation is that  
> an empty second argument is required when only options need to be passed.
>   
why? in that case #3 is empty and #2 contains the options
> \def\printPrime#1{#1 is prime.\crlf}
>
> \def\useGNUPLOTgraphic
>    {\dotripleempty\douseGNUPLOTgraphic}
>
> \def\douseGNUPLOTgraphic[#1][#2][#3]%
>    {\ifthirdargument
>       \doprime{#2}
>       parameters are #3
>       \getparameters[gnuplot][#3]
>     \else\ifsecondargument
>       \doprime{#2}
>     \fi\fi}
>
> \def\doprime#1{\processcommalist[#1]\printPrime}
>
> \starttext
> \useGNUPLOTgraphic[name]
> \useGNUPLOTgraphic[name][2,3,5]
> \useGNUPLOTgraphic[name][3,5,7][width=2in]
> \useGNUPLOTgraphic[name][][width=4in]
> \stoptext
>
> Regards,
> BG
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