Getting { in the input.

Getting { in the input.

[Nikolai Weibull]

Again I'm having some problems generating my ASCII table, this time it's
{ and } that are the culprits.  I'm currently using $\{$ and $\}$ for
them, but it would be great if there was a way to get them rendered like
the other characters that have \type{...} surrounding them.  There
doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this...is there perhaps a hard one?
	nikolai

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main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

Re: Getting { in the input.

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hello Nikolai,

> Again I'm having some problems generating my ASCII table, this time it's
> { and } that are the culprits.  

try one of these:


\starttext
\textbraceleft
\type-{-
\stoptext


Patrick

Re: Getting { in the input.

[Nikolai Weibull]

* Patrick Gundlach <pg@levana.de> [May 28, 2004 13:30]:
> \starttext
> \textbraceleft

in enco-def.tex this is
	\definecharacter textbraceleft    {\mathematics{\{}}
which means wrapping {\tt ...} around it doesn't give a teletyped brace
but a nice mathematics one.

> \type-{-

This doesn't seem to work well inside a table:

! Missing { inserted.
<inserted text>
                {
<to be read again>
                   &
\normalTABLEquote ->\unskip \!ttRightGlue &
                                           \omit \tablepos &
\NC ...rentTABLEcolumn \plusone \normalTABLEquote
                                                  \fi
l.754         \NC
                  \type{|}  \NC $\}$ \NC  \type{~} \NC  {\tt DEL} \NC\AR
?

where my .tex source reads:

\NC 120 \NC \type{x}  \NC \type{y}  \NC \type{z}  \NC \type-{-
        \NC \type{|}  \NC $\}$ \NC  \type{~} \NC  {\tt DEL} \NC\AR

> \stoptext

It would be great if one could get the second version (\type-{-) working
inside a table, as this is the prettier solution.

Currently I just did my own

\definecharacter textbraceleft 123

(which some of the other enco-*.tex files did) for this and wrapped that
inside a {\tt ...}:

	{\tt \textbraceleft}

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions,
	nikolai

P.S.
Here's a small testfile:

\starttext
\starttable[|c|]
\NC \type-{- \NC\AR
\stoptable
\stoptext

D.S.

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::: name: Nikolai Weibull    :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka :::
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::: page: www.pcppopper.org  :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 :::
main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

Re: Re: Getting { in the input.

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:59 29/05/2004, you wrote:

>* in enco-def.tex this is
>         \definecharacter textbraceleft    {\mathematics{\{}}
>which means wrapping {\tt ...} around it doesn't give a teletyped brace
>but a nice mathematics one.
>
> > \type-{-

the problem is in (1) not all fonts having all chars [esp cmr have gaps] 
and (2) handling catcodes when args are passed around,

in tables this is very nasty (and related to typeset tex in its own 
language; compare xml where you have to escape < > " to do the same)

\tttf\string{

works quite well unless the scanner wants matching {}'s

as do \texescape \leftargument \rightargument

Hans