Re: Not possible to redefine inbetween in \definedescription

[Radhelorn <radhelorn@mail.ru>]

Christopher Creutzig wrote:
> 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
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Thanks Adam, Christopher, you helped me a lot! It's always hard to 
explain TeXnical things to Word users.

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Radhelorn <radhelorn@mail.ru>