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At 10:48 PM 11/7/2001 +0100, Marko Schuetz wrote:
>I want to use ConTeXt macros from within typing, like
>
>
>\define[1]\mysquare{#1$^2$}
>
>\starttyping
>this is verbatim text /mysquare{j}
>\stoptyping
>
>it works with macros that do not take arguments, but with arguments
>the open curly brace seems to be considered for the macro name and an
>undefined ... error is produced.
>
>A related problem is that I cannot have e.g. a comma after a macro
>name because then also the name is not recognized.
>
>Help will be appreciated! :-)

I admit that it looks ugly but look at this:

\startRAW
\def\mathematics#1%         %%\ N  usage: \type {\mathematics{x^2}}
   {\ifmmode#1\else$#1$\fi}  %%\ N  becomes: \mathematics{X^2}
\stopRAW

the %%\ serves as an escape and N is the escape-to-tex handler

[see verb-ini.tex/core-ver.tex for more details]

[some day i will reimplement the pretty printing handler since it is (low 
level) a bit too fuzzy]

Hans

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