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From: Giuseppe Bilotta <bourbaki@bigfoot.com>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re[2]: Environments and shortcuts
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 12:34:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1708537342.20010605123453@bigfoot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20010604121415.009daa00@server-1>

Monday, June 04, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:

HH> At 02:45 PM 6/2/01 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I know I should not be using shortcuts (they are not "official"),
>>but they're so usefull ... ok, here's the problem.
>>
>>If I define a shortcut in an environment file, like
>>
>>\startenvironment novel
>>
>>\defineshortcut[color=red]
>>
>>\stopenvironment
>>
>>and the use \environment novel, the shortcut definition does not
>>work (all other definitions do, though). What might the problem
>>be?

HH> since < > are used in macros (\ifnum etc) they are pushed popped when
HH> loading critical files which means that after loading the env, the < has
HH> it's old meaning. So, you need to add 

HH> \catcode`\<=\active

HH> to the main file (\def\enableshortcuts{\catcode...} \enableshortcuts) 

Works like a chamr, thank you.

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta


      reply	other threads:[~2001-06-05 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-02 12:45 Giuseppe Bilotta
2001-06-04 10:14 ` Hans Hagen
2001-06-05 10:34   ` Giuseppe Bilotta [this message]

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