Unescaped $ and & in texts

Unescaped $ and & in texts

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Can't we add a new mode to ConTeXt to use $ and & in text
without escaping them with a backslash, & is not needed
to write tables and for inline math \formula could be used.

In text only documents I want also the % as normal character
where I don't need comments. What do you think, with \nonknuthmode
we have already a command to write '_' in text mode.

\appendtoks
\catcode`\$=12
\catcode`\&=12
\catcode`\%=12
\to \everystarttext

\starttext

Procter & Gamble’s stock climbed to $2, a 10% gain.

\stoptext

Wolfgang

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Re: Unescaped $ and & in texts

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> Can't we add a new mode to ConTeXt to use $ and & in text
> without escaping them with a backslash, & is not needed
> to write tables and for inline math \formula could be used.

Also add # to the list. Basically, we can just define a catcode regime 
where only \ { and } are special. Inside math mode (activated by \formula, 
\math, \mathematics, or \startformula) we can switch to a catcode regime 
where _ and ^ are also set to appropriate catcodes. I would go as far as 
to say that we should make this default, but I don't think everyone will 
like that. So, for me a \justwritenaturally macro will do :-)

Aditya
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Re: Unescaped $ and & in texts

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 17.12.2008 um 21:46 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:

> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>> Can't we add a new mode to ConTeXt to use $ and & in text
>> without escaping them with a backslash, & is not needed
>> to write tables and for inline math \formula could be used.
>
> Also add # to the list. Basically, we can just define a catcode  
> regime where only \ { and } are special. Inside math mode (activated  
> by \formula, \math, \mathematics, or \startformula) we can switch to  
> a catcode regime where _ and ^ are also set to appropriate catcodes.  
> I would go as far as to say that we should make this default, but I  
> don't think everyone will like that. So, for me a  
> \justwritenaturally macro will do :-)

I wasn't sure if I should add # to the list bit it makes sense.

\nonknuthmode takes care to tread _ and ^ as subscript and superscript
in math mode and as normal chars in text mode.

Wolfgang

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Re: Unescaped $ and & in texts

[Hans Hagen]

Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 
>> Can't we add a new mode to ConTeXt to use $ and & in text
>> without escaping them with a backslash, & is not needed
>> to write tables and for inline math \formula could be used.
> 
> Also add # to the list. Basically, we can just define a catcode regime 
> where only \ { and } are special. Inside math mode (activated by 
> \formula, \math, \mathematics, or \startformula) we can switch to a 
> catcode regime where _ and ^ are also set to appropriate catcodes. I 

there is already \nonknuthmode -)

> would go as far as to say that we should make this default, but I don't 
> think everyone will like that. So, for me a \justwritenaturally macro 
> will do :-)

we can discuss this some time next year or so; it is slightly more 
complex than changing a few catcoded because we need to make sure that 
modules etc are loaded under a different catcode regime then

Hans


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