From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25567 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: strange \v!on Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:02:41 +0100 Message-ID: <43D7E771.6060204@elvenkind.com> References: <43D75EEB.7000509@elvenkind.com> <057E24B4-28E1-4F8E-8E78-DFF925B6B7FA@science.uva.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138223050 14091 80.91.229.2 (25 Jan 2006 21:04:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:04:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jan 25 22:04:08 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F1rnp-0000LP-2A for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:03:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAFF512778; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:03:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17080-06; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:03:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01CCF1279F; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:01:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DBD01279F for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:01:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17116-01-2 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:01:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 4672212778 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:01:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from boo.demon.nl ([82.161.175.147]:57679 helo=[192.168.1.3]) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1F1rm4-000BMm-Gn for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:01:53 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050215) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <057E24B4-28E1-4F8E-8E78-DFF925B6B7FA@science.uva.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:25567 Archived-At: Hans van der Meer wrote: > Well, obviously I interpreted the use of \V!-macros wrong. > I understood it being the ConTeXt way of making command strings > language independent, as in for example. > \c!corner=\v!rectangular Ah, now it is clear to me (I was not paying attention close enough). Your understanding is fine, you just missed a small caveat. You have to put stuff that uses @, ! or ? in macro names within a block surrounded by \unprotect ... \protect (like the \makeat.. macros in LaTeX). Within such a block, the @, ! and ? act as letters for use inside macro names. > The article "Context System macros part1"