Am 21.12.2010 um 12:14 schrieb Philipp A.:

> so i want to use ' and -- in my code, which is embedded via \starttyping \stoptyping, but that’s impossible.
> context replaces -- with – and ' with ’. that’s wrong. i need to be able to tell context it shouldn’t do any “smart” stuff, since i’m smart enough to press the ’-key if i want the character ’.
> 
> so what i ask for:
> we should change the standard behavior of context to “don’t replace --, ' and whatnot in verbatim areas”
> we should be able to trigger this globally, for people who have a useful keyboard layout and can type “special” characters as fast as ascii.
> is the latter already built in somehow?

Make a example where this occurs, in the following example all dashes are correct in the typing environment with mkii and mkiv.

\starttext

\startlines
-
--
---
\stoplines

\starttyping
-
--
---
\stoptyping

\stoptext

Wolfgang