* definitions local to a component
@ 2006-05-18 17:57 Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-05-18 18:11 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Sanjoy Mahajan @ 2006-05-18 17:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
What's the safe way to make \def's local to a component? I could wrap
each component in a \begingroup..\endgroup but that might do bad
things to the output routine.
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
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2006-05-18 17:57 definitions local to a component Sanjoy Mahajan
@ 2006-05-18 18:11 ` Hans Hagen
2006-05-19 4:06 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2006-05-18 18:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> What's the safe way to make \def's local to a component? I could wrap
> each component in a \begingroup..\endgroup but that might do bad
> things to the output routine.
>
\pushmacro\whateveryouwant
ungrouped stuff
\popmacro\whateveryouwant
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2006-05-18 18:11 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2006-05-19 4:06 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
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From: Sanjoy Mahajan @ 2006-05-19 4:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
> \pushmacro\whateveryouwant
> ungrouped stuff
> \popmacro\whateveryouwant
Thanks, that works. A small example, in case others find it useful:
\starttext
\def\y{outside\par}
\y
\pushmacro\y
\def\y{inside\par}
\y
\popmacro\y
\y
\stoptext
which produces
outside
inside
outside
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
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