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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: checking mainlanguage setup
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:14:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE5F4FD.6040907@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.vwcn2ljjtpjj8f@lpr>

On 31-5-2011 4:33, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2011 12:45:00 +0200, Jeong Dalyoung <haksan@me.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Lucas,
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Shouldn't it be (untested):
>>>
>>> context("\\def\\lang{English}")
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It is working.
>>
>>>
>>> context([[\def\lang{English}]])
>>
>> It is not working. It prints "def lang English".
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Dalyoung
>
> OK.
>
> I meant just the way how strings in Lua are entered
>
> - if inside quotation marks, escaping is required, thus "\\" yields to
> backslash,
> - if inside [[ ... ]], single \ gives backslash, and of course \\ gives
> TWO backslashes.
>
> I guessed that your original
>
> [[\\def\\lang{English}]]
>
> could have caused the problem, so I corrected it to
>
> [[\def\lang{English}]]

[[ ]] vs " " is a lua thing ... but when you pass things from within 
tex, expansions happens the same in both; you can try

context("\detokenize{...}")



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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-01  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1.1306836001.18520.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2011-05-31 10:45 ` Jeong Dalyoung
2011-05-31 14:33   ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2011-06-01  8:14     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-06-01  8:22       ` Hans Hagen
     [not found] <mailman.1275.1306911210.4231.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2011-06-01  7:45 ` Jeong Dalyoung
2011-06-01 12:54   ` Wolfgang Schuster
     [not found] <mailman.1266.1306859874.4231.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2011-06-01  1:16 ` Jeong Dalyoung
2011-06-01  1:32   ` Aditya Mahajan
     [not found] <mailman.1.1306576802.24208.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2011-05-28 12:26 ` Jeong Dalyoung
2011-05-28 13:45   ` Hans Hagen
2011-05-31  6:48   ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
     [not found] <mailman.1220.1306501767.4231.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2011-05-28  2:41 ` Jeong Dalyoung
2011-05-28  3:04   ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-05-27  9:49 Jeong Dalyoung
2011-05-27 10:11 ` Pontus Lurcock
2011-05-27 10:22 ` Marco
2011-05-27 10:41 ` Peter Münster

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