From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2210 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karsten Tinnefeld Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \pounds problem Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 15:55:14 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <200006021355.PAA15326@peano.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <000501bfcb2b$d0919fa0$530761c3@chris> <3.0.6.32.20000602004514.00b7e260@pop.wxs.nl> <000901bfcc92$a8982ce0$e60761c3@chris> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035392997 7000 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:09:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:09:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: "Christopher G D Tipper" , "ConTeXT Mailing List" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Jun 2000 16:00:50 +0300." <000901bfcc92$a8982ce0$e60761c3@chris> Original-Mime-Version: 1.0 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2210 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2210 > \def\pounds{\char191} > ! Bad character code (19120). > Obviously it is appending the 20 in £20 to the character code. Is there a > TeX trick for forcing it out of \char mode? It is in number parsing mode. You can add a space after a number. This space is "part of" the number representation and absorbed when parsing "in TeX's mouth". See TeXbook, pages 43f. \def \pounds {\char 191 } Karsten -- Karsten Tinnefeld tinnefeld@ls2.cs.uni-dortmund.de Fachbereich Informatik, Lehrstuhl 2 T +49 231 755-4737 Universität Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Deutschland F +49 231 755-2047