From: "N. Raghavendra" <nyraghu27132@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Characters allowed in macro names
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 20:53:32 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2n7e03v.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
I was wondering if it is alright to use underscores in the names of
macros, e.g, as in the following file. It looks like \startsetups, and
\def accept names with hyphens, underscores, and numerals, but
\starttexdefinition doesn't tolerate any of them.
1. In general, what characters are allowed in macro names? Are Unicode
characters admissible?
2. Apart from the fact that one can use whitespace freely in
\starttexdefinition, is there any reason to prefer it over \def?
Thanks,
Raghu.
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\starttext
\startsetups [hello-world_1]
Hello, world 1!
\stopsetups
\setups [hello-world_1]
\def\hello-world_2{Hello, world 2!}
\hello-world_2
\starttexdefinition helloWorld
Hello, world!
\stoptexdefinition
\helloWorld
%% Doesn't work
%% \starttexdefinition fooBar1
%% Foo, bar 1!
%% \stoptexdefinition
%%
%% \fooBar1
%% Doesn't work
%% \starttexdefinition foo_bar
%% Foo, bar!
%% \stoptexdefinition
%%
%% \foo_bar
%% Doesn't work
%% \starttexdefinition foo-bar
%% Foo, bar!
%% \stoptexdefinition
%%
%% \foo-bar
\stoptext
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--
N. Raghavendra <raghu@hri.res.in>, http://www.retrotexts.net/
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/
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2018-04-22 15:23 N. Raghavendra [this message]
2018-04-22 16:04 ` Hans Hagen
2018-04-22 18:19 ` N. Raghavendra
2018-04-22 18:08 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2018-04-22 18:22 ` N. Raghavendra
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