From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/43712 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Bowen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: error message query Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:57:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <419B5954-21EF-4792-86E3-A6BC57D9B8C2@princeton.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220502542 28408 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2008 04:29:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 04:29:02 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Sep 04 06:29:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kb6Th-0006Mq-95 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:29:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2E51FE90; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:28:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24831-01-9; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:27:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 976BB1FE4C; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:12:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064141FEBA for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:10:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22593-01-8 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:07:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from vms173005pub.verizon.net (vms173005pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.5]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E321B1FC78 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 04:58:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from new-host.home ([72.82.250.115]) by vms173005.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0K6N00JIOHKDO0K7@vms173005.mailsrvcs.net> for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:57:49 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.926) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:43712 Archived-At: Thomas=97 The problem seems limited to one of my environments. With the one for = the journal, MKII and \def\ {|~|} work when the Greek module is loaded = and when real Greek is set. In short, the changes made in your Greek = module seem happily restricted to text in \localgreek{...} and so on. I am at a loss to see how \def\ {|~|} collides with the many macros in = the problem environment right now, hence my query about a cleverer way = to make the definition. By the way, I use |~| to reduce stretch and to get the right spacing = after any period within a sentence. It=92s unbreakability is an = undesirable side effect. (The string A.|~\E|~|Samuel=94, for example, = breaks with a hyphen as in =93A. E.-=94 which is certainly not good.) = Apparently, we have lost the functionality of the old =93\ =94 when = \mainlanguage[en]. Cheers, Alan On Sep 3, 2008, at 17;44,35 , Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > On Sep 3, 2008, at 9:48 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: > >> It appears that the problem is my definition >> >> \def\ {|~|} >> >> Though this definition works in a simple test file, it apparently >> conflicts with something in my environment file and produces the = >> error >> message reported previously. So, is there a =93safer=94 way to define >> \ as {|~|}? >> >> Alan > > Since you seem to be using Greek in your file: both | and ~ are made > inactive in the Greek environment, so if you use '\ ' within Greek > stuff, you're running into trouble. I don't see a solution within mkii > if you want the nonbreakable space. > > Thomas > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an = > entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-co= ntext > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________