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From: Rik Kabel <context@rik.users.panix.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: (MkVI) Regression in named parameters, TL2013 to current
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 22:39:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53115660.7020901@rik.users.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <531138AC.7070800@wxs.nl>


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On 2014-02-28 20:32, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 3/1/2014 12:45 AM, Rik Kabel wrote:
>> % macros=mkvi
>>
>> \setupwhitespace[small]
>>
>> \def\ä<^>?z{Ä<^>?}
>
> only letters can make a \cs (not symbols)

Clearly this is not currently the case, although I would agree that it 
should be. Is there any way to enforce it? The definition above 
processes cleanly on TL2013 and the current beta. The log file shows 
nothing.

And as I wrote in the first note, accepting non-letters (that is, other 
than the basic unaccented Aa--Zz) makes delimited parameter patterns 
difficult to use with Mark VI parameter names. Thus, we have the 
situation described in the following example, when in fact all should 
work without error (as I understand it, but perhaps \starttexdefinition 
has other limits of which I am not aware).

    % macros=mkvi

    % Fails to compile with TL2013 and current beta
    %\starttexdefinition Test #1¦#2.
    %  #1, #2!
    %\stopdefinition

    % Fails to compile with TL2013 and current beta
    %\starttexdefinition Test #PARAM¦#ETER.
    %  #PARAM, #ETER!
    %\stopdefinition

    % Works with TL2013 and processes with errors on current beta
    %\def\Test#PARAM¦#ETER.{#PARAM, #ETER!}

    % Works with TL2013 and current beta
    \def\Test#1¦#2.{#1, #2!}

    \starttext

    \Test No soap¦{radio}.

    \stoptext

Perhaps these are two different problems, but they smell the same to me.

Finally, assuming that I am correct that

    \starttexdefinition Test #PARAM¦#ETER.

  should work, should

    \starttexdefinition Test #PARAM ¦ #ETER .

work the same. That is, are spaces allowed for readability in the 
definition pattern, or are they significant?

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-01  3:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-28 23:45 Rik Kabel
2014-03-01  1:32 ` Hans Hagen
2014-03-01  3:39   ` Rik Kabel [this message]
2014-03-01  9:59     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-03-01 14:40       ` Rik Kabel

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