passing arguments to commands while typing

passing arguments to commands while typing

[Johan Sandblom]

While documenting some Matlab code for barely computer literates I wish to use the positional graphics described in the MetaFun manual. Not sure if this is possible of course. I am not at all successful so far since I cannot get the escaping mechanism to accept my code. It appears that the /hpos works just fine but the {} generate problems. I have tried using <<>> in all ways I could think of but haven't been lucky yet. Is this possible?

Minimal example:

\setuppapersize[S6][S6]
\setuptyping[option=commands]
\starttext
\starttyping
test /hpos{word}{test} test
\stoptyping
\stoptext

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Re: passing arguments to commands while typing

[Hans Hagen]

Johan Sandblom wrote:

>While documenting some Matlab code for barely computer literates I wish to use the positional graphics described in the MetaFun manual. Not sure if this is possible of course. I am not at all successful so far since I cannot get the escaping mechanism to accept my code. It appears that the /hpos works just fine but the {} generate problems. I have tried using <<>> in all ways I could think of but haven't been lucky yet. Is this possible?
>
>Minimal example:
>
>\setuppapersize[S6][S6]
>\setuptyping[option=commands]
>\starttext
>\starttyping
>test /hpos{word}{test} test
>\stoptyping
>\stoptext
>
>  
>

\setuppapersize[S6][S6]
\setuptyping[option=commands]

\starttext

\def\naturaltextext#1\relax
  {\bgroup
   \prettynaturalfont
   \def\ascii{#1}%
   \setnormalcatcodes
   \restorecatcodes
   \scantokens\expandafter{\ascii}\ifhmode\unskip\fi
   \egroup}

\let\texy\naturaltextext

\starttyping
test /naturaltextext\hpos{word}{test}/relax test
test /texy \rm is the word/relax test
\stoptyping

\MPxy{word}

\stoptext

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