From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Surprising changes in vers. 2012.01.11
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:23:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0DA970.8020909@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG5iGsBD_fwAtyStzP_X7moajdTGX8G-7SnARHKPd5SZ6zKk6A@mail.gmail.com>
On 11-1-2012 15:46, luigi scarso wrote:
> ~ is \nobreakspace
> \unexpanded\def~{\nobreakspace}
>
> and you define
> \def\nobreakspace{~}
>
> i.e. an infinte loop, I suppose.
indeed, and it's a bonus that ~ == nobreakspace (although I can imagine
that we'd get rid of it) but defining other macros in terms of active
characters is a bad idea
(in fact one can use the unicode nbsp character)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-11 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-11 12:22 Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 12:40 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 12:50 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 13:01 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-11 13:17 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-01-11 13:41 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-11 14:38 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 14:45 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-11 14:46 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-11 15:18 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 15:26 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-11 15:36 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-11 15:55 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-01-11 15:23 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-01-11 16:24 ` Alan Braslau
2012-01-11 16:33 ` Alan Braslau
2012-01-11 16:42 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-11 17:32 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-01-11 15:48 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 15:53 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-11 16:46 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 19:31 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-01-11 19:44 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 19:51 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-01-11 21:05 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-11 21:04 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-12 21:20 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 12:53 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-11 12:55 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-11 13:43 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-12 8:58 ` Mari Voipio
2012-01-12 9:10 ` luigi scarso
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