[alech@asta.tu-darmstadt.de: ConTeXt and \S]

[alech@asta.tu-darmstadt.de: ConTeXt and \S]

[Alexander Klink]

Hi,

I posted that to the tetex-pretest mailing list before, but got
no response. Maybe someone is using the tetex beta here and got
an idea why this is happening?

Greetings,
		Alex

----- Forwarded message from Alexander Klink <alech@asta.tu-darmstadt.de> -----
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 20:30:48 +0200
From: Alexander Klink <alech@asta.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: tetex-pretest@informatik.uni-hannover.de
Subject: ConTeXt and \S

Hi,

I just installed the beta versions from dante, but now the
§-sign does not work anymore in ConTeXt:

alech@sonja:/tmp> cat paragraph.tex
\starttext
\S 15
\stoptext

alech@sonja:/tmp> texexec paragraph.tex

 TeXExec 2.6 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2001

            executable : pdfetex
                format : cont-en
             inputfile : paragraph
                output : standard
             interface : en
          current mode : all
               TeX run : 1

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7)
entering extended mode
(./paragraph.tex{/home/alech/tetex/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}

ConTeXt  ver: 2001.11.13  fmt: 2002.5.12  int: english  mes: english

language       : language en is active
system         : cont-new loaded
(/home/alech/tetex/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex
systems        : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex!
)
system         : cont-old loaded
(/home/alech/tetex/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex
loading        : Context Old Macros
)
system         : cont-fil loaded
(/home/alech/tetex/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex
loading        : Context File Synonyms
)
bodyfont       : 12pt rm is loaded
language       : patterns 2-en-2 2-uk-2 2-de-2 2-fr-2 2-nl-2 loaded
specials       : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded
system         : paragraph.top loaded
(./paragraph.top) (./paragraph.tuo) (./paragraph.tuo) (./paragraph.tuo)
(./paragraph.tuo) (./paragraph.tuo) (./paragraph.tuo) (./paragraph.tuo)
(./paragraph.tuo) (./paragraph.tuo) (./paragraph.tuo) (./paragraph.tuo)
(./paragraph.tuo) (./paragraph.tuo)
systems        : begin file paragraph at line 1
[1.1]
systems        : end file paragraph at line 3
 )
Output written on paragraph.dvi (1 page, 284 bytes).
Transcript written on paragraph.log.

              run time : 0 seconds
  sorting and checking : running texutil

 TeXUtil 7.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2000

                action : processing commands, lists and registers 
                option : sorting IJ under Y 
                option : converting high ASCII values 
            input file : paragraph.tui 
           output file : paragraph.tuo 
       passed commands : 6 
         remapped keys : 0 
      register entries : 0 -> 0 entries 0 references 
       synonym entries : 0 -> 0 entries 
        embedded files : 1 

        total run time : 1 seconds

But the DVI-File only contains a "15" without the §. In both Plain-TeX
and LaTeX it still seems to work.
Maybe someone got an idea how to solve this!?

Greetings,
		Alex

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Re: [alech@asta.tu-darmstadt.de: ConTeXt and \S]

[Patrick Gundlach]

Alexander Klink <alech@asta.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:

Hello Alexander,

> I posted that to the tetex-pretest mailing list before, but got
> no response. Maybe someone is using the tetex beta here and got
> an idea why this is happening?

I do not use tetex beta. I have a very old tetex and a very new
ConTeXt. 

As a workaround, you can use either $\S$ or  \sectionmark (latest
ConTeXt version needed). I think that \S (and alike, there are more)
should work in math mode *and* in text mode. 

Patrick

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