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From: Giuseppe Bilotta <bourbaki@bigfoot.com>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re[2]: \doglobal\settrue/\setfalse
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:56:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <30692224.20010731085613@bigfoot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20010730163944.023f0ce0@server-1>

Monday, July 30, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:

HH> \settrue and setfalse are rather primitive commands, i.e. chardefs

HH> \doglobal is used for some commands for which the global assignment is to b 
HH> eapplied somewhere in the middle of the macro def or multiple times; since 
HH> \doglobal is meant for experts, i assume that they peek into the code of 
HH> syst-* macros to see where it is applicable: dodoglobal, redoglobal, 
HH> resetglobal are its low low low level companions

So \settrue and \setfalse have to be precede by \global and
not \doglobal?

Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta


  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-31  6:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-30 14:21 \doglobal\settrue/\setfalse Giuseppe Bilotta
2001-07-30 14:42 ` \doglobal\settrue/\setfalse Hans Hagen
2001-07-31  6:56   ` Giuseppe Bilotta [this message]
2001-07-31  7:24     ` Re[2]: \doglobal\settrue/\setfalse Hans Hagen
2001-07-31  8:00       ` Re[3]: \doglobal\settrue/\setfalse Giuseppe Bilotta

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