Re: Slanted, double-quoted quotations

[Sander Maijers <s.n.maijers@gmail.com>]

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I am wondering likewise.

Sander Maijers

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Rik <rik@panix.com> wrote:

> On 2014-10-15 17:06, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>> Am 15.10.2014 um 21:03 schrieb Rik Kabel <context@rik.users.panix.com>:
>>
>>  I am not sure I understand the need for symstyle and symcolor. The issue
>>> is not that the symbols are not styled/colored, but that they do not appear
>>> at all when a non-normal style is specified. What I see with the example I
>>> posted is:
>>> <hacaddjd.png>
>>> and I assume that Sander saw a similar issue.
>>>
>>> Note that there are no square brackets present as defined for layer 2.
>>>
>>> I realize that style=normal for level 3 should perhaps be style=\tf,
>>> since normal is redefined to slanted within the scope of layer 2. With that
>>> change to my example, I get
>>> <fageaehi.png>
>>> This still has the lack of square brackets, and now in addition lacks
>>> curly braces for level 3.
>>>
>>> If your fix is meant to repair that, all is well. If not, could you
>>> explain why “it's deliberate and has always been the case in mkiv”?
>>>
>> When you use “location=text” context checks the value of the style key,
>> when the value of the key is “normal”
>> the left and right arguments are used but when you use a different value
>> (e.g. slanted) context applies only
>> the style and color values.
>>
>>
> Thank you, Wolfgang, for that explanation of what is being done.
>
> Can you explain why this is done? It would seem, given the name of the
> command, that the delimiter is more important than the styling, and so I
> suspect that there is some historical reason that this behavior was chosen.
> Styling can be done within the text, as can delimiters, but the benefit of
> the command is that it should be able to manage multiple levels
> automatically.
>
> --
> Rik Kabel
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