Re: Incompatibility catcodes of characters in ConTeXt and PlainTeX

[Jaroslav Hajtmar <hajtmar@gyza.cz>]

One more thanx Hans for interesting and useful information
Jaroslav Hajtmar

BTW: I did not get an answer to my last mail see Re: [NTG-context] CSV 
scanners built in ConTeXt - feature or bug?
I wrote that now is splitter works properly. I would like to ask if 
you're planning to fix file util-prs.lua in a future release of 
standalone ConTeXt?

As for me, I'd rather vote for as the default option other option, ie 
which does not stop on a blank line ie. not how it's setup now (ie 
personally I'd rather vote  strict=true would mean process all lines of 
CSV file and strict=false mean stop processing on blank line), but I 
will take into account whatever alternative and consequently I would 
take into account this options for my own library.
Alan writes about this behavior as like metapost feature. Personally, I 
think that the CSV file is basically a plain text file and a blank line 
in it has its place. The end of the text file is usually marked by <eof> 
character, so I guess there's no reason to terminate processing before 
the file really ends.




Dne 1.3.2015 v 11:05 Hans Hagen napsal(a):
> 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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