Canonical way to escape the square brackets?

Canonical way to escape the square brackets?

[Marco Pessotto]

Dear list,

I swear I searched the internet, but I guess the terms are too generic.
The question is: is there a safe way to escape the square brackets,
preventing them to be eaten by the previous command? For example:

\item [this should be in brackets]

My solution is:

\define\leftsquarebracket{[}
\define\rightsquarebracket{]}

\item \leftsquarebracket this should be in brackets\rightsquarebracket

I'm pretty sure there is already a built-in command for them, so I'm
asking the list.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards

-- 
Marco

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Re: Canonical way to escape the square brackets?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 28.01.2012 um 16:41 schrieb Marco Pessotto:

> 
> Dear list,
> 
> I swear I searched the internet, but I guess the terms are too generic.
> The question is: is there a safe way to escape the square brackets,
> preventing them to be eaten by the previous command? For example:
> 
> \item [this should be in brackets]
> 
> My solution is:
> 
> \define\leftsquarebracket{[}
> \define\rightsquarebracket{]}
> 
> \item \leftsquarebracket this should be in brackets\rightsquarebracket
> 
> I'm pretty sure there is already a built-in command for them, so I'm
> asking the list.

No, there isn’t but you can stop ConTeXt to look for a optional with a \relax
after the command , e.g. \item\relax.

Wolfgang
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Re: Canonical way to escape the square brackets?

[Marco Pessotto]

Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> writes:

> Am 28.01.2012 um 16:41 schrieb Marco Pessotto:
>
>> Dear list,
>> 
>> I swear I searched the internet, but I guess the terms are too generic.
>> The question is: is there a safe way to escape the square brackets,
>> preventing them to be eaten by the previous command? For example:

> No, there isn’t but you can stop ConTeXt to look for a optional with a \relax
> after the command , e.g. \item\relax.
>

Ok, thanks a lot.
Cheers

-- 
Marco

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