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From: Jaroslav Hajtmar <hajtmar@gyza.cz>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Incompatibility catcodes of characters in ConTeXt and PlainTeX
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 07:24:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F2B0A9.9040101@gyza.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54F0B1B9.1000206@wxs.nl>

Dne 27.2.2015 v 19:04 Hans Hagen napsal(a):
> On 2/27/2015 5:53 PM, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote:
>> Hello ConTeXist.
>> Petr Olsak (maintainer of Czech/Slovak support for TeX) helped me with
>> simple typing of sign charts. He made a PlainTeX macro who is working
>> too in ConTeXt (see
>> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/230273/typing-of-math-sign-charts). 
>>
>>
>> Petr Olsak (not ConTeXt even LaTeX user) was modified PlainTeX macro to
>> work in ConTeXt and asked the question:
>> "Does anybody know why ConTeXt sets catcode of & to 12? This means that
>> it is incompatible with plain TeX".
>
> Which is imo no big deal.
I did not write that he would give redoing some work, after discovering 
that catcode & is different than in plainTEX.
>
>> May I therefore ask , what is the reason that has character & catcode
>> other than in Knuth PlainTeX?
>> There are catcodes of other characters incompatible?
>
> Because the context table mechanisms don't use & (and never used it) 
> so ther ei sno reason to make & special. The _ and ^ are also normal 
> characters. For now we keep the $ for math (and in math mode the & ^ _ 
> work as expected).
>
> Although we're to some extend plain compatible it's not our aim, just 
> like we're not amstex, latex, lamstex or anytex compatible.
>
Ok. Thanks for the explanation. I wrote to Peter that developer context 
to have a reason, and certainly it would from an ordinary whim not done.
Even so, I am very satisfied with the degree of compatibility. 
Practically all of my old PlainTeX macros in ConTeXt work fine.
Thanx
Jaroslav

> Hans
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-01  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-27 16:53 Jaroslav Hajtmar
2015-02-27 18:04 ` Hans Hagen
2015-03-01  6:24   ` Jaroslav Hajtmar [this message]
2015-03-01 10:05     ` Hans Hagen
2015-03-01 14:43       ` Jaroslav Hajtmar

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