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From: Brooks Moses <bmoses@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: Collecting command arguments in a startstop environment
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 01:46:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20040802014449.01a79ed0@cits1.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2hdrm3phn.fsf@levana.de>

At 01:37 AM 8/2/2004, you wrote:
> > Anyhow, I'm finding myself wanting to do this in ConTeXt, with of
> > course replacing \newenvironment with \definestartstop.
>
>I didn't want to fiddle with \definestartstop, but here is a quick
>hack:
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>\long\def\foo#1{ Hello #1!}
>\long\def\startfoo #1 \stopfoo{\unskip \foo{#1}}
[...]

Oh, that's clever.  I'll have to ponder at whether it's got some drawbacks 
that mean it doesn't work for what I need, but it does seem promising.  Thanks!

- Brooks

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-02  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-02  5:39 Brooks Moses
2004-08-02  8:37 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-08-02  8:46   ` Brooks Moses [this message]
2004-08-02 17:43 ` Brooks Moses
2004-08-02 20:14   ` Hans Hagen Outside

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