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* % prevents linebreaks in \startlines ... \stoplines
@ 2010-04-04 19:08 Aditya Mahajan
  2010-04-04 19:26 ` Wolfgang Schuster
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Aditya Mahajan @ 2010-04-04 19:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,

Here is an interesting example

\starttext
\startlines
one   %
two   %
three %
\stoplines
\stoptext

This gives no linebreaks! Can this be prevented? I doubt it since
TeX never sees the \n. In which case, we should call it a 
feature :-)

Aditya
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* Re: % prevents linebreaks in \startlines ... \stoplines
  2010-04-04 19:08 % prevents linebreaks in \startlines ... \stoplines Aditya Mahajan
@ 2010-04-04 19:26 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2010-04-04 19:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Am 04.04.10 21:08, schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
> Hi,
>
> Here is an interesting example
>
> \starttext
> \startlines
> one   %
> two   %
> three %
> \stoplines
> \stoptext
>
> This gives no linebreaks! Can this be prevented? I doubt it since
> TeX never sees the \n. In which case, we should call it a feature :-)
\bgroup\obeylines
\gdef\?#1^^M{\par}%
\egroup

\starttext
\startlines
one
two   \? comment
three %
four  \? another comment
five  %
six
seven
eight
\stoplines
\stoptext

Wolfgang

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