From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/66400 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \halign Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:18:54 +0100 Message-ID: <4D67E47E.1010904@wxs.nl> References: <87wrkps76d.fsf@gmail.com> <877hcorsxl.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298654382 32666 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2011 17:19:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:19:42 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Feb 25 18:19:37 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pt1KL-0001to-Kl for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:19:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1A0CAA75; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:19:36 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id rpoYrpYybB4j; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:19:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A82CAA64; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:19:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35900CAA64 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:19:20 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id UWSVkrZX5keE for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:18:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-nij.mf.surf.net (filter3-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.154]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9204CAA5E for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:18:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-nij.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p1PHIwMT016261 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:18:59 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.1c2) with ESMTP id 6616-1713362 for multiple; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:18:53 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 In-Reply-To: <877hcorsxl.fsf@gmail.com> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0dEchiWvW - ea82850c11d5 - 20110225 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.154 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:66400 Archived-At: On 25-2-2011 5:16, Eythan Weg wrote: > > Wolfgang Schuster > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________