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Fwd: BOUNCE ntg-context@let.uu.nl: Non-member submission from [robbieinsel@freeuk.com (Robbie Pickering )]

[Hans Hagen]

>
>Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> >
> >actually, there is a trick:
> >
> >say that you add a signal:
> >
> >\newsignal\MySignal
> >
> >bla bla\hskip\MySignal
> >
> >then you can test for this signal:
> >
> >\ifdim\lastskip\MySignal
> >   ...
> >\else
> >   ...
> >\fi
> >
>
>afraid this is a little over my head. I understand what you are doing (I
>think) but I don't have enough TeX to implement it. :-(
>
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Fwd: BOUNCE ntg-context@let.uu.nl: Non-member submission from [robbieinsel@freeuk.com (Robbie Pickering )]

[Hans Hagen]

>Simon Pepping wrote:
>
> >> \defineXMLenvironment [DEFN] {}{.}
> >> to add a full stop after the definition. It would be nice, though, to be
> >> able to automatically add a colon instead in those cases where the DEFN
> >> environment is immediately followed by a EGPH.
> >
> >This is very difficult, because your tagging has no moment at which
> >this can be concluded: </DEFN> is too early to know, but when there is
> >no following EGPH, there is nothing that can trigger the period or
> >colon.
>
>I see your point, but couldn't the trigger be "anything which is not
><EGPH>" ?
>
>
>It would be easier if the whole definition would be in a
> >container: <definition><DNUM/><DEFN/><EGPH/></definition>. Then you
> >can save EGPH, and </definition> could typeset it with preceding
> >colon, or it could typeset a period.
>
>this is a good idea, I don't want to modify the XML by adding
>punctuation marks, but extra tagging might be possible.
>
>it occurs to me that if we could determine whether EGPH actually
>contains anything this would be simple, no?
>
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