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From: "Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Not possible to redefine inbetween in \definedescription
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:27:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050714172730.2216@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42D6A01E.8000908@mail.ru>

Radhelorn said this at Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:25:50 +0400:

>> If you think of the braces as "quoting" the parameter values, you'll
>> probably be alright.
>
>I mean parameter values. Then why not have ConTeXt add braces to every 
>parameter? Or there will be slowdown Taco mentioned?

Sort of. That, I imagine, has more to do with TeX's parser, and the
inability to look ahead.

What if I amend my statement to:

If you think of the braces as "quoting" the parameter values when
necessary or otherwise ambiguous, you'll probably be alright.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-14 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-14 11:43 Radhelorn
2005-07-14 12:45 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-07-14 13:53   ` Radhelorn
2005-07-14 14:30     ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-07-14 15:08       ` Adam Lindsay
2005-07-14 17:25         ` Radhelorn
2005-07-14 17:27           ` Adam Lindsay [this message]
2005-07-14 17:49           ` Christopher Creutzig
2005-07-15  5:13             ` Radhelorn
2005-07-14 15:01     ` luigi.scarso
2005-07-20 19:58 ` Hans Hagen

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