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From: Christopher Creutzig <christopher@creutzig.de>
Subject: Re: Not possible to redefine inbetween	in	\definedescription
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:49:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42D6A5B8.9030701@creutzig.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42D6A01E.8000908@mail.ru>

Radhelorn wrote:

> I mean parameter values. Then why not have ConTeXt add braces to every 
> parameter? Or there will be slowdown Taco mentioned?

  Exactly.  ConTeXt would need to find out the parameters' boundaries 
first, and that is the place where things would become slow, since it is 
not possible to use TeX's built-in parser for that; it just can't handle 
two different types of balanced brackets at the same time.  Besides, 
you'd still need to quote commas, since \setupitemize[stopper=,] is just 
as valid as \setupitemize[stopper={,}] is, just with a completely 
different meaning.  And while it may be a bit strange, you could even 
set \setupitemize[stopper={, before=abc },after=\blank] – absolutely no 
way of guessing these quotes.


regards,
	Christopher

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-14 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-14 11:43 Radhelorn
2005-07-14 12:45 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-07-14 13:53   ` Radhelorn
2005-07-14 14:30     ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-07-14 15:08       ` Adam Lindsay
2005-07-14 17:25         ` Radhelorn
2005-07-14 17:27           ` Adam Lindsay
2005-07-14 17:49           ` Christopher Creutzig [this message]
2005-07-15  5:13             ` Radhelorn
2005-07-14 15:01     ` luigi.scarso
2005-07-20 19:58 ` Hans Hagen

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