From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: character redefinition environment
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:14:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <454E1C00.6040906@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <454DFA03.8060801@veribox.net>
Enzo Cordes wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I want to assign Metapost graphics to single letters (in a newly defined
> evironment, that take care of these assignments). The purpose is being
> able to rapidly build huge tables containing lots of these symbols.
>
> Everything works fine if I assign these graphics to non-letters, e.g.
> "|", but somehow it doesn't work with normal letters.
>
> Here is what I tried (with a simple Foo instead of Metapost graphics):
>
> \definesymbol[foosymbol][{\tt Foo}]
> \def\startmychars{%
> \bgroup\catcode`\|=\active\def|{\symbol[foosymbol]}}
> \def\stopmychars{\egroup}
>
> This works with | as reassigned character without any problems. But, we
> want to have normal characters in the table, no punctuation marks, etc.
> Does anyone know what to do to reassign a special definition for a
> letter e.g. like uppercase B or else?
>
> I got this error:
> (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex)
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> \startmychars ...up \catcode `\B=\active \defB
> {\symbol[foosymbol]}
> l.24 \startmychars
>
> which seems to indicate that B is not recognized as active character in
> the "\defB"?
>
>
| is already active, but not b
\bgroup
\catcode`B=\active
\def\start...
\egroup
otherwise a 'character B' and not an 'active character B' ends up in the
definition
This may be easier:
\def\Whatever
{\defineactivecharacter B {[oeps]}}
bla bla \start \Whatever B \stop ble bla
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2006-11-05 14:49 Enzo Cordes
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2006-11-06 16:40 ` Enzo Cordes
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