From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: problem with def
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 16:52:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BEAC093.2030801@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005121046.58827.john@wexfordpress.com>
John Culleton wrote:
> In plain pdftex I can define a string thus:
> \def\booktitle{My Book Title}
>
> and then reuse it later as
> \rightline{\bf\booktitle}
> But in Context when I use
> \rightaligned{\bf\booktitle}
>
> it errors on the tag \booktitle
This definitely should work, so you should post a minimal
example (are you defining \booktitle inside a group?)
> I tried \the\booktitle but that didn't work either.
This should not work.
Best wishes,
Taco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-12 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-12 14:46 John Culleton
2010-05-12 14:52 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2010-05-12 19:21 ` John Culleton
2010-05-12 14:52 ` luigi scarso
2010-05-12 16:52 ` Otared Kavian
2010-05-12 18:07 ` luigi scarso
2010-05-12 17:58 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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