From: "N. Raghavendra" <nyraghu27132@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Characters allowed in macro names
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 23:49:21 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgdfdryu.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96243afc-07ec-d4eb-bcf4-2bb4bc6de79f@xs4all.nl> (Hans Hagen's message of "Sun, 22 Apr 2018 18:04:28 +0200")
At 2018-04-22T18:04:28+02:00, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> 1. In general, what characters are allowed in macro names? Are Unicode
>> characters admissible?
>
> letters are (and _ is not a letter, unless we're in unprotected mode)
>
>> 2. Apart from the fact that one can use whitespace freely in
>> \starttexdefinition, is there any reason to prefer it over \def?
>
> depends ... sometimes more readble ... spaces are ignores ... you can
> use named parameters
Thanks for the clarification.
Raghu.
--
N. Raghavendra <raghu@hri.res.in>, http://www.retrotexts.net/
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-22 15:23 N. Raghavendra
2018-04-22 16:04 ` Hans Hagen
2018-04-22 18:19 ` N. Raghavendra [this message]
2018-04-22 18:08 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2018-04-22 18:22 ` N. Raghavendra
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