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From: Rik Kabel <ConTeXt@rik.users.panix.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Color problem
Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 09:52:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f760048-b24f-a8e5-33bc-c573dda7beba@rik.users.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e47d33be-8254-4e37-824a-0514e12a2651@gmail.com>

On 5/21/2021 00:26, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Aditya Mahajan schrieb am 21.05.2021 um 04:47:
>> On Thu, 20 May 2021, Rik Kabel wrote:
>>
>>> Consider the following example:
>>>
>>>     \define \HighlightColor {red}
>> Why not just use:
>>
>> \definecolor[HighlightColor][red]
>>
>> and then use color=HighlightColor, etc.
>
> This is the better way to create unique color names but the problem
> in the example was the use of \define instead of \defineexpandable.
>
> \defineexpandable\HighlightColor{red}
>
> Wolfgang
>
Wolfgang and Aditya,

Thank you both for the lesson.

Is the difference between MkIV (--luatex) and LMTX due to stricter 
application of expandability in LMTX?

-- 
Rik

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-21 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-21  2:33 Rik Kabel
2021-05-21  2:47 ` Aditya Mahajan
2021-05-21  4:26   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2021-05-21 13:52     ` Rik Kabel [this message]
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2020-10-01 18:55 color problem Susanne G. Loeber
2020-10-02  7:10 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-10-02 12:14 ` Henri Menke

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