From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21384 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Adam Lindsay" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Not possible to redefine inbetween in \definedescription Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:27:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20050714172730.2216@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> References: <42D64FD2.5080104@mail.ru> <42D65E79.7080006@elvenkind.com> <42D66E76.2010308@mail.ru> <42D676F2.2080506@elvenkind.com> <20050714150802.20787@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <42D6A01E.8000908@mail.ru> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121362209 13309 80.91.229.2 (14 Jul 2005 17:30:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:30:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jul 14 19:30:06 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dt7WS-0000Af-6q for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:29:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D78127F2; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:29:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14471-05; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:29:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218E0127E9; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:27:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE06127E9 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:27:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14471-04 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:27:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk [148.88.3.45]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F200E126F8 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:27:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [194.80.37.193] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6EHRM4X013711 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:27:22 +0100 (BST) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: <42D6A01E.8000908@mail.ru> X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail version 5.2.1 build 4397 English X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:21384 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21384 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. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-