[pstricks] Antw: recursion

[Robert Salvador]

Hallo Manfred!

Thanks for your additional remark on \edef and the hard white space
command \space!
All is working perfectly now.

Robert


>>> manfred.braun at uni-due.de 27.10.07 21.23 >>>
Robert Salvador wrote:

> Good evening everybody!

>  

> I want to do a recursive calculation in a LaTeX-document with 

> following PSTricks drawing. So I have defined a variable \def\x{0.0 } 

> Now I want to assign a new value to this variable (within a \whildo 

> loop). This new value is calculated from the old one like
(simplyfied):

> \def\x{\x 1 add }

> But this doesn't work (TeX capacity exceeded!)

 

As Alan has pointed out \edef, instead of \def, will do the job.
However,
you have to write

  \edef\x{\x\space 1 add }

Also the actual value of \x has to be used in the form, e.g.,

  \SpecialCoor

  \psdot(! \x\space 0 )

The usual space following \x is absorbed as indicating the end of the
command, according to TeX's rules. An additional white space has to be
inserted explicitly by \space.

Manfred