Re: A fresh approach to learning Context.

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 01:44 PM 3/3/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> > >with pdftex causes an error message in Context thus:
> > >
> > >! Use of \def doesn't match its definition.
> > >l.79 \def\hpenalty
> > >                   {\ifvmode\leavevmode\fi \penalty}%
> > >
> >> it seems that somehow the primitiev \def has been defined,
> >
> > add the line \show\def before line 79 and see what happened, move
> > this line up till the primitive def shows up.
> >
> > Hans
>Following this advice I found a strange piece of code in
>eplain that causes the problem. Then I went to xeplain (eplain
>annotated) and found  an explanation of the code.
>
>Here is the xeplain.tex code and explanation:

>\def^^L{\par}%

in context, ^^L has catcode 'endofline', so this should be:

\catcode`\^^L=\active \def^^L{\par}

btw, be aware that when you load eplain after context, much features of 
context will break as i suppose that eplain has its own otr and subsystems. 
(loading eplain first and context afterwards would be saver)

if you want some eplain functionality, you'd better copy the 'useful' code 
to a file and load that one

Hans
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