Re: nested synonyms

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 01:57 PM 7/10/01 +0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
>I have noticed that synonyms which are used only in the expansion of other 
>synonyms will not be included in the list of synonyms if they themselves 
>are used in the list of synonyms only. I don't really understand this 
>sentence myself, so here is an example:
>
>\abbreviation{CNS}{Crystallography \& \NMR\ System}
>\abbreviation{NMR}{Nuclear Magnetic Resonance}
>\starttext
>	\CNS\ is an abbreviation % for \infull{CNS}
>	\completelistofabbreviations
>\stoptext
>
>The list of abbreviations will only have one item (CNS). Removing the '%' 
>character results in both items being listed.
>
>Not surprisingly, I noticed this in two similar situations: with defined 
>synonyms of another kind calling abbreviations not used elsewhere in the 
>text, and with abbreviations used in the list of publications only (with 
>m-bib).
>
>Do I have to take care of this manually? If so, and if I don't want
>\setupsynonyms[abbreviation][criterium=all],
>then
>{\setbox0=\hbox{\NMR}}
>is an acceptable solution: no output in the dvi file, but context fooled to 
>consider the abbreviation used in my text...?

thst's actually wy there is the obscure command \usecommands{\NMR} 
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