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From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: LMTX MkIV difference in expansion
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 21:41:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44270398-0261-05e3-5b2b-94ac7c442301@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ca4ce38-e876-72d8-b64e-121e33823799@rik.users.panix.com>

Rik Kabel schrieb am 19.11.2020 um 21:20:
> Another LMTX/MkIV difference, this time with expansion:
> 
>     \define\Align{yes}
>     \starttext
>     \startalignment[\Align]
>          This works with MkIV but fails with LMTX, complaining: {\tt
>          tex error on line 3 in file G:/expand.mkvi: The file ended
>          when scanning an argument.}
>     \blank
>         It works in both when \tex{def} or \tex{defineexpandable} is
>         used instead of \tex{define}.
>     \blank
>         What changed?
>     \stopalignment
>     \stoptext
> 
> It may well be that I have been abusing some laxity in MkIV and that 
> LMTX is a bit stricter in what it accepts, but I would like to know if 
> this is an expected difference.

You have to wait for Hans to get an answer but here is a minimal example.

\starttext

\protected\def\testparameter{test}
%\def\testparameter{test}

\def\test[#1]%
   {\expandafter\let\expandafter\testargumentlist\csname#1\endcsname}

\test[\testparameter]

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-19 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-19 20:20 Rik Kabel
2020-11-19 20:41 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2020-11-19 22:03   ` Hans Hagen
2020-11-19 23:18     ` Rik Kabel
2020-11-20  7:53       ` Hans Hagen
2020-11-21 15:05       ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-11-21 15:25         ` Rik Kabel

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