On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

>
> Am 04.09.2012 um 14:21 schrieb Marco Patzer <homerow@lavabit.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I discovered strange behaviour concerning Lua conditionals within
>> texdefinitions.
>>
>> ConTeXt complains: 'then' expected near 'thenelseend'.
>>
>> I guess it has something to do with how the content of a
>> texdefinitions is grabbed. Seems like a bug or is this by design?
>
> When you use the texdefinition environment to create a command
> the end of line character which results normally in a space is ignored
> sees “thenelseend” as a single string, in such a case you can add
> a space and put a comment sign at the end of the line.
>
>> % This one fails
>> % \starttexdefinition mycmd
>> %   \startluacode
>> %     if true then
>> %     else
>> %     end
>> %   \stopluacode
>> % \stoptexdefinition
>
> \starttexdefintion mycmd
>  \startluacode
>    if true then %
>    else %
>    end
>  \stopluacode
> \stoptexdefinition

Why does adding semicolon not work?

Aditya