From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Escaping reserved/problematic characters
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:03:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48cf5e8d-37e4-e450-cf90-9ab62d3643d3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFC_yuRB9Rbk_CT4ZULcG2ktDbQNH_jJCHv=OyP1AOzJtwAooQ@mail.gmail.com>
Benct Philip Jonsson schrieb am 11.03.2021 um 18:37:
> In a program I'm writing I have a function for escaping characters which
> are reserved or problematic in LaTeX. I would like to have a
> corresponding function for ConTeXt, so I'm wondering which ones are
> different/superfluous/missing from a ConTeXt perspective in the
> following list (sorry about the formatting!):
>
> '{': "\\{"
\letterleftbrace
> '}': "\\}"
\letterrightbrace
> '_': "\\_"
No escape needed.
> '%': "\\%"
\letterpercent
> '#': "\\#"
\letterhash
> '$': "\\$"
\letterdollar
> '&': "\\&"
No escape needed.
> '`': "\\textasciigrave{}"
\textgrave
> '^': "\\textasciicircum{}"
\letterhat
> '~': "\\textasciitilde{}"
\lettertilde
> '\\': "\\textbackslash{}"
\letterbackslash
> '|': "\\textbar{}"
\letterbar
> '<': "\\textless{}"
> '>': "\\textgreater{}"
> '[': '{[}'
> ']': '{]}'
No escape needed.
> Note that I'm not looking for accented letters, Unicode quotes and
> dashes etc. I'm assuming that people in the year 2021 are using an
> UTF-8-aware engine (and my corresponding HTML escape function similarly
> caters only to & < > " ').
Another option is to use \utfchar, e.g. \utfchar{0x60}
Wolfgang
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