From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Pyramiding \defs
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:18:02 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0809191716590.19705@nqv-yncgbc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080919214910.43492e4e@mars.zu.haus>
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Holzminister wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Can perhaps anyone explain to me why the example works in one case, but
> not in the other?
Grouping. For a simpler example
{\def\moretest{More test}}
\moretest
will not work. What you need to do is
{\gdef\moretest{More test}}
\moretest.
Aditya
>>>>
> \enableregime[utf-8]
> \mainlanguage [de]
>
> % \def\werte#1{\em [#1]} % +++ works
> \def\werte#1{{\em [#1]}} % --- doesn't work
>
> \def\moretest{}
>
> \def\test%
> {
> Testtext
> \def\moretest%
> {
> More Testtext
> }
> }
>
> \starttext
>
> \werte{\test}
>
> \moretest
>
> \stoptext
>>>>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Eyke
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2008-09-19 19:49 Holzminister
2008-09-19 21:18 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2008-09-20 12:28 ` Holzminister
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