From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Jesse Alama <alama@stanford.edu>, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: alloc@0, etc, from plain.tex
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:15:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C5FAAFD.3040207@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C5FA53C.40607@elvenkind.com>
On 9-8-2010 8:50, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> On 08/09/2010 06:58 AM, Jesse Alama wrote:
>> There's a plain TeX package (bussproofs.sty from CTAN; I realize that
>> the file ends with ".sty" but it's intended to work in plain TeX) that
>> I'm trying to get working with ConTeXt. I'm stuck at one point though:
>> the package has the statements
>>
>> \def\newcount{\alloc@0\count\countdef\insc@unt}
>> \def\newdimen{\alloc@1\dimen\dimendef\insc@unt}
>> \def\newskip{\alloc@2\skip\skipdef\insc@unt}
>> \def\newbox{\alloc@4\box\chardef\insc@unt}
>
> ConTeXt has \newcount et al. predefined already.
Plain tex also has these. If a style (in this case busproofs) does not
check for that it's likely to clash with more.
Hans
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-09 4:58 Jesse Alama
2010-08-09 6:50 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-09 7:15 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2010-08-09 19:27 ` Jesse Alama
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