Re: Environments and shortcuts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 02:45 PM 6/2/01 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I know I should not be using shortcuts (they are not "official"),
>but they're so usefull ... ok, here's the problem.
>
>If I define a shortcut in an environment file, like
>
>\startenvironment novel
>
>\defineshortcut[color=red]
>
>\stopenvironment
>
>and the use \environment novel, the shortcut definition does not
>work (all other definitions do, though). What might the problem
>be?

since < > are used in macros (\ifnum etc) they are pushed popped when
loading critical files which means that after loading the env, the < has
it's old meaning. So, you need to add 

\catcode`\<=\active

to the main file (\def\enableshortcuts{\catcode...} \enableshortcuts) 

Hans 
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