From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: hajtmar@gyza.cz, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Incompatibility catcodes of characters in ConTeXt and PlainTeX
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 11:05:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F2E458.7060101@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54F2B0A9.9040101@gyza.cz>
On 3/1/2015 7:24 AM, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote:
> 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.
\pushcatcodetable
\catcodetable\texcatcodes
your plain code
\popcatcodetable
but it doesn't help when sources are passed as arguments of macros under
the normal regime
> Thanx
> Jaroslav
>
>> Hans
>>
>>
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-01 10:05 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
2015-03-01 10:05 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2015-03-01 14:43 ` Jaroslav Hajtmar
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