\type macro weird?

\type macro weird?

[Hans van der Meer]

This works fine:
\starttext Here a type macro <\type{\abc}> \stoptext

This also:
\starttext \placetable{table \type{abc} title}{abc} \stoptext

This too:
\starttext \placetable{table \type{\blank} title}{abc} \stoptext

But this gives an error (mind the \ before abc). 
\starttext \placetable{table \type{\abc} title}{abc} \stoptext

Do I misinterprete something here? 
I just wanted to typeset "\abc" in the type-font. 
Why is the very first \abc treated as text to typeset but requires the placetable argument that it is an existing macro?
Or isn't this the intended behaviour?

Hans van der Meer


Error log:
system          > tex > error on line 3 in file test.tex: Undefined control sequence ...

1     \starttext
2     %Here a type macro <\type{\abc}>
3 >>  \placetable{table \type{\abc} title}{abc}
4     \stoptext
5     

\@@kjtabletitle ->table \type {\abc 
                                    } title
\doif #1#2->\edef \!!stringa {#1
                                }\edef \!!stringb {#2}\ifx \!!stringa \!!str...
\dostructurecountercomponent ...\c!title }\v!none 
                                                  {\setfalse \hasstructureco...
\docompletefloat ...c!title ={#4},\c!bookmark =][]
                                                  \globallet \previousfloatn...
<argument> ...{table \type {\abc } title}\nextbox 
                                                  \else \docompletefloat {ta...
\secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2
                              
...
l.3 \placetable{table \type{\abc} title}{abc}

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Re: \type macro weird?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 25.04.2011 um 22:05 schrieb Hans van der Meer:

> This works fine:
> \starttext Here a type macro <\type{\abc}> \stoptext
> 
> This also:
> \starttext \placetable{table \type{abc} title}{abc} \stoptext
> 
> This too:
> \starttext \placetable{table \type{\blank} title}{abc} \stoptext
> 
> But this gives an error (mind the \ before abc). 
> \starttext \placetable{table \type{\abc} title}{abc} \stoptext
> 
> Do I misinterprete something here? 
> I just wanted to typeset "\abc" in the type-font. 

Use \tex{abc}.

Wolfgang

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