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Subject: Re: Backwards compatibility problem?
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At 06:01 PM 7/13/2001 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>Hi,
>
>again, testing the new ConTeXt with "old" documents, I noticed
>that
>
>\definedescription[Desc]
>                   [headstyle=italic,
>                    before=,after=,
>                    margin=2\parindent,
>                    width=15em]
>
>doesn't work in the new ConTeXt, while it worked in the old one
>(the new one causes a "missing \endcsname" error).

Solved,

\def\dosetleftskipadaption#1%
   {\edef\ascii{@lsa@#1}%
    \convertcommand\ascii\to\ascii
    \leftskipadaption
      \ifcsname\ascii\endcsname
        \csname\ascii\endcsname
      \else
        #1%
      \fi
    \relax}

Hans
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