From: Lars Huttar <lars_huttar@sil.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: What do \start and \stop mean?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:53:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5249BA9F.9020105@sil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1309301142290.12899@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
On 9/30/2013 11:44 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Lars Huttar wrote:
>
>> I found \start and \stop referenced in the context reference manual
>> (e.g. section 5.5).
>> While \startXYZ - \stopXYZ pairs are discussed earlier, I can't find any
>> place that \start and \stop (with no suffix) are described.
>> They seem to be used like \bgroup and \egroup. Is that right?
>> They are defined in core-sys.mkiv, but I can't figure out from there
>> what they actually do.
>
> (Untested, based on what I remember):
>
> \start = \bgroup
> \stop = \egroup
>
> but \start scans the next argument, so there are situations when
> \start may fail but \bgroup works.
>
> \start[whatever] ... \stop = \startwhatever ... \stopwhatever
>
Ouch, that sounds like two very different behaviors, depending on
whether an argument is present.
I think I'll document \start at
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/start
but take the usage of it out of the ref man's examples, replacing it
with { and }, as long as the examples still work. It's not important to
any of the examples.
Thanks, Aditya and Luigi, for the quick assist.
Lars
>
> Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-30 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-30 15:38 Lars Huttar
2013-09-30 15:44 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-09-30 17:53 ` Lars Huttar [this message]
2013-09-30 16:00 ` luigi scarso
2013-09-30 16:32 ` luigi scarso
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