From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: List of special characters
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:47:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <860A71E6-9BB1-4B66-B644-2E791539C5C7@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG-LmmC8vrL0+mMZ8D7zZfntQ=E5KWRO+7fapW8YBp8+mcku3w@mail.gmail.com>
Am 15.08.2011 um 16:31 schrieb Cecil Westerhof:
> While writing the documentation about using ConTeXt I need some 'special' characters. A few I have found, for example \%, \backslash, \texttilde, \percent. But until now I did not find how to represent [ and ]. How would I use those characters in my document?
>
> Also: is there somewhere a 'complete' list? I found several, but they where all for LaTeX and are not completely the same. For example LaTeX uses \textbackslash which does not work in ConTeXt which uses \backslash.
\starttext
[ ] @ _ ^ % normal characters
\startlines
\textbackslash\ or \letterbackslash
\textbraceleft\ or \letterleftbrace\ or \{
\textbraceright\ or \letterrightbrace\ or \}
\percent\ or \letterpercent\ or \%
\textdollar\ or \letterdollar\ or \$
\letterampersand\ or \&
\letterhash\ or \#
\stoplines
\asciimode
% $ # & %% this is a comment
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-15 14:31 Cecil Westerhof
2011-08-15 14:47 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2011-08-15 15:12 ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-08-15 15:20 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-08-15 15:33 ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-08-15 15:39 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-08-15 16:05 ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-08-15 16:10 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-08-15 16:26 ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-08-15 17:05 ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-08-15 15:05 ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-08-15 15:09 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-08-15 15:29 ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-08-15 15:36 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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