[NTG-context] macro that does not work (Metapost)

Tue Feb 11 21:40:08 CET 2020

Hi Mikael,
Thanks.
Fabrice

Le mar. 11 févr. 2020 à 14:01, Mikael P. Sundqvist <mickep at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 1:22 PM Fabrice Couvreur <
> fabrice1.couvreur at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Hans,
>> I tried this but without success :
>>
>>  \startMPcode
>>      suite{1,0};
>>      suite{2,1};
>>  \stopMPcode
>>
>> Fabrice
>>
>> Le mar. 11 févr. 2020 à 13:08, Hans Hagen <j.hagen at xs4all.nl> a écrit :
>>
>>> On 2/11/2020 11:50 AM, Fabrice Couvreur wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> > I have some problems with the following macro :
>>> >
>>> > tex error       > mp error on line 23 in file /home/viserion/macro.tex:
>>> >
>>> > ! Missing argument to suite.
>>> > <to be read again>
>>> > {
>>> > <*> suite{
>>> > 1,0}; suite(2,1); ;
>>> > That macro has more parameters than you thought.
>>> > I'll continue by pretending that each missing argument
>>> > is either zero or null.
>>> >
>>> > ! Missing argument to suite.
>>> > <to be read again>
>>> > {
>>> > <*> suite{
>>> > 1,0}; suite(2,1); ;
>>> > That macro has more parameters than you thought.
>>> > I'll continue by pretending that each missing argument
>>> > is either zero or null.
>>>
>>>
>>> {} instead of ()
>>>
>>> > ! Extra tokens will be flushed.
>>> > <to be read again>
>>> > {
>>> > <*> suite{
>>> > 1,0}; suite(2,1); ;
>>> > I've just read as much of that statement as I could fathom,
>>> > so a semicolon should have been next. It's very puzzling...
>>> > but I'll try to get myself back together, by ignoring
>>> > everything up to the next `;'. Please insert a semicolon
>>> > now in front of anything that you don't want me to delete.
>>> > (See Chapter 27 of The METAFONTbook for an example.)
>>> >
>>> > [1]
>>> >
>>> > 13       enddef;
>>> > 14     \stopMPcode
>>> > 15     \starttext
>>> > 16      On présente ci-dessous deux suites de dessins.
>>> > 17           \startlinecorrection[blank]
>>> > 18             \startmidaligned
>>> > 19               \startcombination[2*1]
>>> > 20                 {\startMPcode
>>> > 21                   suite{1,0};
>>> > 22                   suite(2,1);
>>> > 23 >>               \stopMPcode}{\tfxx \bf Suite 2}
>>> > 24           \stopcombination
>>> > 25             \stopmidaligned
>>> > 26           \stoplinecorrection
>>> > 27     \stoptext
>>> >
>>> > mtx-context     | fatal error: return code: 256
>>> >
>>> > TeX Output exited abnormally with code 1 at Tue Feb 11 11:45:53
>>> >
>>> > ##################################################
>>> > macro.tex
>>> > ##################################################
>>> >
>>> > \startMPcode
>>> >    def suite (expr n, t) =
>>> >    begingroup
>>> >     numeric u;
>>> >     u := 5mm;
>>> >     pickup pencircle scaled 4pt;
>>> >     for i=0 upto n:
>>> >       for j=0 upto n:
>>> >           drawdot (i*u,j*u) shifted(t*u,0) withcolor darkred;
>>> >       endfor
>>> >     endfor
>>> >    endgroup
>>> >    enddef;
>>> > \stopMPcode
>>> > \starttext
>>> >   On présente ci-dessous deux suites de dessins.
>>> >        \startlinecorrection[blank]
>>> >          \startmidaligned
>>> >            \startcombination[2*1]
>>> >              {\startMPcode
>>> >                suite{1,0};
>>> >                suite(2,1);
>>> >               \stopMPcode}{\tfxx \bf Suite 2}
>>> >        \stopcombination
>>> >          \stopmidaligned
>>> >        \stoplinecorrection
>>> > \stoptext
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thank you.
>>> > Fabrice
>>> >
>>> >
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>
> I think Hans meant you should use () and not {}.
>
> The following compiles here.
>
> Hope it helps!
>
> /Mikael
>
> \startMPcode
>   def suite (expr n, t) =
>   begingroup
>    numeric u;
>    u := 5mm;
>    pickup pencircle scaled 4pt;
>    for i=0 upto n:
>      for j=0 upto n:
>          drawdot (i*u,j*u) shifted(t*u,0) withcolor darkred;
>      endfor
>    endfor
>   endgroup
>   enddef;
> \stopMPcode
> \starttext
>  On présente ci-dessous deux suites de dessins.
>       \startlinecorrection[blank]
>         \startmidaligned
>           \startcombination[2*1]
>             {\startMPcode
>               suite(1,0);
>               suite(2,1);
>              \stopMPcode}{\tfxx \bf Suite 2}
>       \stopcombination
>         \stopmidaligned
>       \stoplinecorrection
> \stoptext
>
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