Re: \to in footer?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> andrea valle wrote:
>   
>> Hi to all,
>>
>> I wanted to use in footer an arrow so I went with:
>> \setupfootertexts[$\to$ help]
>>
>> It raises an error.
>> I solved with $\rightarrow$, but I was curious about this fact
>> Why does it happen?
>>     
>
> The \to creates interference with the keyword scanner in
> the footer|header text macro (because the internal macro,
> \convertargument, uses \to as an argument delimiter).
>
> There is no way you could have known that.
>   

{$\to$} may help

i hav eplans to use an alternative syntax for the append macros (some day)

Hans

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