Re: Wrong catcode?

["Giuseppe Bilotta" <oblomov@freemail.it>]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 12:42 PM 12/31/00 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> >Hello, I'm using ConTeXt 2000.12.14
> >
> >It looks like some <protection> leaked through some macros, since ? has
> >catcode 11 instead of 12. It's not my document's fault, since
> >\showthe\catcode`? gives 11 even at the very top of the file. This means
> >that things like \type{\dots?} cannot be used anymore (that's what
happened
> >to me :->).
> >
> >I believe this is a "recent" problem, since the previous format I was
using
> >(2000.9.21) compiled the document flawlessly.
>
> Hm. Can you check cont-new.tex and cont-sys.tex for matching \protect ..
> \unprotect?
>

cont-sys has an unmatched unprotect at the beginning (there is a \protect in
a commented block);
cont-new has 11 unprotect and 7 protects;

do these figures mean something to you?

> \starttext
>
> \def\test{test} \test?
>
> \stoptext
>
> should work. When reading module etc files, protection is handled, so
maybe
> some \unprotect lacks, When exactly does this happen?
>

In the document; something as easy as

\starttext
 Hello, World! This is \TeX!
\stoptext

shows the bug. Both ! and ? are of catcode letter rather than other.

Giuseppe Bilotta