Re: escaping from \starttyping...\stoptyping

[Marko Schuetz <MarkoSchuetz@web.de>]

Hans,

From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: escaping from \starttyping...\stoptyping
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 10:19:29 +0100

> At 10:48 PM 11/7/2001 +0100, Marko Schuetz wrote:
> >I want to use ConTeXt macros from within typing, like
> >
> >
> >\define[1]\mysquare{#1$^2$}
> >
> >\starttyping
> >this is verbatim text /mysquare{j}
> >\stoptyping
> >
> >it works with macros that do not take arguments, but with arguments
> >the open curly brace seems to be considered for the macro name and an
> >undefined ... error is produced.
> >
> >A related problem is that I cannot have e.g. a comma after a macro
> >name because then also the name is not recognized.
> >
> >Help will be appreciated! :-)
> 
> I admit that it looks ugly but look at this:
> 
> \startRAW
> \def\mathematics#1%         %%\ N  usage: \type {\mathematics{x^2}}
>    {\ifmmode#1\else$#1$\fi}  %%\ N  becomes: \mathematics{X^2}
> \stopRAW

??? 

I don't understand. Wherever I put \startRAW ... \stopRAW I get an
undefined control sequence error for \startRAW. I tried
\startTEX/\stopTEX, but the %%\ does not seem to escape...

> the %%\ serves as an escape and N is the escape-to-tex handler
> 
> [see verb-ini.tex/core-ver.tex for more details]

I had a look in there, but did not understand what was going on.

Marko