Re: mode dependend character handling

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>> \startencoding[ec]
>>     \startmode[swiss]
>>         \definecharacter ssharp {ss}
>>     \stopmode
>> \stopencoding
>> than the order of commands doesn't matter any more (but then the
>> automatic conversion will only work for the ec encoding).

mode processing is based on modes that are in effect
at the execution time of the \startmode macro, not
the typeset time. This would work:

   \enablemode[swiss]
   \startencoding[ec]
      \startmode[swiss]
          \definecharacter ssharp {ss}
      \stopmode
   \stopencoding

but then it would be on always, since it effectively becomes

   \startencoding[ec]
      \definecharacter ssharp {ss}
   \stopencoding

whereas without the \enablemode it becomes only:

   \startencoding[ec]
   \stopencoding

which does nothing.

HTH,

Taco