From: "Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: description fails on \if
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:37:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <115224fb0803270037u76ed672cl517b8ed2e08acae6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A50DBE0D-027B-4C9C-B8EF-114BB795ACA2@science.uva.nl>
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Hans van der Meer <hansm@science.uva.nl> wrote:
> Wolfgang,
>
> From your observation I am inclined to guess that the \ifx falls prey
> to the collection of arguments. The \relax can be replaced by an extra
> pair {} behind the description: \answerblock{}{}% also typesets
> without the if-error.
You could also add "title=no" to \definedescription[answerblock], this stops
TeX from looking after a optional argument between the braces.
> I more or less conclude that the lookahead from \dodoublegroupempty
> does not stop on the \if. If I remember correctly, that behaviour is
> to be expected from tex and the prospects for solving it generically
> within the format bleak. If Hans Hagen is listening, can he comment on
> this?
I tried your module also with my ancient ConTeXt from august last year
and it did also show this effect. Your module is broken since a very long time.
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-27 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-25 19:38 Hans van der Meer
2008-03-26 7:32 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-03-26 20:23 ` Hans van der Meer
2008-03-26 21:52 ` Hans Hagen
2008-03-27 7:37 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2008-03-26 21:51 ` Hans Hagen
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