Re: Uppercase headings

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Ville Voipio wrote:
>
> I started to edit an old document with capitalized headings. Making 
> the headings was rather difficult (as can be seen on this list about a 
> year ago), and now it seems to have broken again.
>
> I have:
>
> \setuphead[title]
>   [page=yes,
>   before={\strut\blank[5*big]},
>   after={\textrule\blank},
>   align=middle,
>   style=\tfb,
>   textcommand=\WORD
>   ]
>
> This worked fine in the past. Not anymore:
>
> 8<---
>
>
> ! You can't use `\relax' after \the.
> <recently read> \@sl@\@@pnstate
>                                
> \pushmacro ...ame \@sl@ \@@pushedmacro \endcsname
>                                                   \@@pushedmacro 
> \endcsname #1
> \makesectionformat ...macro \@@shortsectionnumber
>                                                   \let 
> \@@shortsectionnumber...
>
> \rawreference ...veryreference \makesectionformat
>                                                   \writereference {#2} 
> {\sec...
> <argument> ...\finalsectionnumber }{\asciititle }}
>                                                   }\fi \executeifdefi! 
> Missing \endcsname inserted.
> <to be read again>
>                    \let
> \@@shortsectionnumber ...@EA \ifx \csname \??se #1
>                                                   \c!ownnumber 
> \endcsname \r...
>
> \makesectionformat ... \@@shortsectionnumber \let
>                                                   
> \@@shortsectionnumber \@@s...
>
> \rawreference ...veryreference \makesectionformat
>                                                   \writereference {#2} 
> {\sec...
> <argument> ...\finalsectionnumber }{\asciititle }}
>                                                   }\fi 
> \executeifdefined {\?...
>
> \douppercase ...rstoftwoarguments \edef \ascii {#1
>                                                   }\edef \ascii 
> {\expandafte...
> ...
>
> 8<---
>
> Using the trivial solution (\uppercase) does not work because with a 
> non-il1 regime it does not handle the accented characters (A umlat, O 
> umlaut) correctly. I use UTF, as it contains all the characters I need.
>
> So, what has changed in the \WORD? It works \WORD{fine} within text 
> but not in the headings.
>
> TIA,
>
> - Ville
>
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