From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \asciimode and \type{%%}
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 21:03:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52335ed1-49b7-6f6d-b5d2-2cf5fe22685c@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b448cc9-c65e-65ea-d858-92d738bc4d90@gmail.com>
On 6/24/2020 7:59 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Hans Hagen schrieb am 24.06.2020 um 19:06:
>> On 6/24/2020 6:33 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> when asciimode is enabled the \type command ignores double comment
>>> symbols.
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>
>>> \quotation{\type{%}}
>>>
>>> \quotation{\type{%%}}
>>>
>>> \asciimode
>>>
>>> \quotation{\type{%}}
>>>
>>> \quotation{\type{%%}}
>>>
>>> \stoptext
>>
>> It's actually a feature: in ascimode double % is the comment and
>> content is preprocessed. originally asciimode was just for math and we
>> still wanted a way to have comments.
>
> I can't remember the details when the command was added (I know there
> was \nonknuthmode) but in this example it works in a unexpected way (the
> % are removed but the following text is kept).
>
> There is no need for \asciimode in my document but I use it sometimes
> when I have symbols I don't want to replace.
It's a side effect of buffers: each \type ends up in a buffer and that
actually is a file on its own.
>> But ... we can have
>>
>> \unexpanded\def\literalmode{\setcatcodetable\txtcatcodes}
>>
>> and then:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> I'll add that command, assuming that someone will document it somewhere.
>
> Not really needed in this case but I'm going to document it.
I already bet on that -)
Hans
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-24 16:33 Wolfgang Schuster
2020-06-24 17:06 ` Hans Hagen
2020-06-24 17:59 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-06-24 19:03 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2020-06-27 7:09 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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