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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \halign
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:18:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D67E47E.1010904@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hcorsxl.fsf@gmail.com>

On 25-2-2011 5:16, Eythan Weg wrote:
>
> Wolfgang Schuster<schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
> Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:20:01 +0100
>
>     Am 24.02.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Eythan Weg:
>
>     >
>     >  Hi,
>     >
>     >  I have just installed beta.
>     >
>     >  The line:
>     >
>     >  \starttext
>     >    \halign{&\hfil#\hfil\quad\cr This&  That\cr1&2\cr}
>     >  \stoptext
>     >
>     >  is not typeset and the&  are left in place.  What could be the problem?
>
>     Since a while ^, _ and&  can be used in text mode like any other character.
>
>     You can disable this with \donknuthmode at the begin of your document or
>     use the \aligntab where you would normally use&  but the best thing is
>     to use one of contexts build in table environment.
>
>     Wolfgang
>
> Thank you.  I think that \halign, being a primitive of tex, should be
> respected.  If a user wants to use it, it should be usable
> unconditionally.

in context a more abstract coding is advertised; if you want to use 
halign in for instance a macro definition, you can surround it by

\unprotect

macro def

\protect

anyhow, when using halign directly in your document, don't expect too 
much from spacing

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-25 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-24 16:56 \halign Eythan Weg
2011-02-24 21:20 ` \halign Wolfgang Schuster
2011-02-25 16:16   ` \halign Eythan Weg
2011-02-25 16:37     ` \halign Khaled Hosny
2011-02-25 17:18     ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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