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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: Are before=command parameters expanded?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:46:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B3284E.4010500@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701201323.01821.mgb-debian@yosemite.net>

Mike Bird wrote:
> I noticed some strange behavior which resulted from the
> fact that the before value is expanded in \setupfootnotes.
> 
> For example, the following test case will break if
> \noexpand is removed:
> 
>   \setupfootnotes[before=\noexpand\undefined]
>   \starttext
>   \stoptext
> 
> Is this the intended behavior or is this a bug?

It is an unavoidable a side-effect. The 'before' bit is typeset
immediately, because the height of the resulting material will
influence page breaking.

Best,
Taco

      reply	other threads:[~2007-01-21  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-20 21:22 Mike Bird
2007-01-21  8:46 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]

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