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From: Radhelorn <radhelorn@mail.ru>
Subject: Re: "Escaping" tabulate
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:21:34 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42DAAFBE.8040009@mail.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42DAA4DF.4000500@creutzig.de>

Christopher Creutzig wrote:
> Radhelorn wrote:
> 
>> Oh, thanks. Can you describe in a few words distinction between {} and 
>> \bgroup\egroup? I know that \bgroup\egroup are "implicit characters" 
>> and useful in macro definitions but what this really means?
> 
> 
>  You can have
> 
> \def\startfoo{\bgroup}
> \def\stopfoo{\egroup}
> 
> but you cannot get the same effect with
> 
> \def\startfoo{{}
> \def\stopfoo{}}
> 

Thanks. Clear and simple answer.

> 
>  I believe in ConTeXt you'd usually(?) use \start and \stop instead of 
> \bgroup and \egroup, though.  What do the experts say about this?
> 
> 

I've seen \start \stop pairs in some examples, but there are so many of 
them in sources that I can not find their definition.


-- 
Radhelorn <radhelorn@mail.ru>

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-17 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-14 13:49 Radhelorn
2005-07-15  9:12 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2005-07-15 10:53   ` Radhelorn
2005-07-15 13:54     ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-15 16:13       ` Radhelorn
2005-07-15 16:43         ` Peter Münster
2005-07-15 17:20           ` Radhelorn
2005-07-17 18:35             ` Christopher Creutzig
2005-07-17 19:21               ` Radhelorn [this message]
2005-07-17 20:00                 ` Brooks Moses
2005-07-17 21:08                   ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-17 21:12                 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-17 18:55             ` Christopher Creutzig
2005-07-17 19:41           ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-17 19:57         ` Hans Hagen

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