From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: MP & \letterpercent
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:53:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5105AFF2.200@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.wrk8vey7dk1lar@lk-2008-nbk>
On 1/27/2013 10:05 PM, Procházka Lukáš wrote:
> Hello,
>
> why the MP code doesn't draw "%" and "#" when it uses TeX's \U - inside
> MP block?:
>
> ----
> \def\T{TTT}
> \def\U{UUU \letterpercent\letterhash}
>
> \starttext
> \letterpercent
> \letterhash
> \par
> \startMPcode
> draw btex AAA etex;
> draw textext("\T");
> % draw btex \T etex; % Err
> draw btex \T{} etex; % OK
> draw textext("\U") shifted (2cm, 0); % Should draw "%" and "#" now
> - where is it?
> \stopMPcode
> \stoptext
> ----
>
> TIA for explanation.
concerning the \T, just look at this:
\edef\crap{draw btex \T etex;} \show\crap
concerning the \U, use the next in order to prevent a % becoming a
comment down the pipeline:
\unexpanded\def\U{UUU \letterpercent\letterhash}
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