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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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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