From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: error message query
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:44:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BD6230C6-0440-4ACF-86E6-C29B5A81A7F4@uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <419B5954-21EF-4792-86E3-A6BC57D9B8C2@princeton.edu>
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 “safer” way to define
> \<space> 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
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-03 19:48 Alan Bowen
2008-09-03 21:44 ` Thomas A. Schmitz [this message]
2008-09-04 2:57 ` Alan Bowen
2008-09-04 8:39 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-09-04 12:10 ` Alan Bowen
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