From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/84493 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: What do \start and \stop mean? Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:44:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <52499ADB.6080802@sil.org> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380555869 31921 80.91.229.3 (30 Sep 2013 15:44:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:44:29 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Sep 30 17:44:31 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([5.39.185.229]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VQfeB-0005dg-KA for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:44:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C8DD101DE; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:42:14 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id eDVhiHhPYuY8; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:42:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 457AC101E6; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:42:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 961D0101E6 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:42:10 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id s0KD74zU4Xsy for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:42:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-utr.mf.surf.net (filter1-utr.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.152]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC81101DE for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:42:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.81]) by filter1-utr.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r8UFiNIq021537 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:44:24 +0200 Original-Received: FROM Decentralized.ECE.McGill.CA (Decentralized.ECE.McGill.CA [132.206.69.142]) By hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 52499C56.919A.1539 ; Authuser adityam; 30 Sep 2013 11:44:22 EDT In-Reply-To: <52499ADB.6080802@sil.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.14.81; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 07KvrInun - efa863152ffb - 20130930 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:84493 Archived-At: On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Lars Huttar wrote: > I found \start and \stop referenced in the context reference manual > (e.g. section 5.5). > While \startXYZ - \stopXYZ pairs are discussed earlier, I can't find any > place that \start and \stop (with no suffix) are described. > They seem to be used like \bgroup and \egroup. Is that right? > They are defined in core-sys.mkiv, but I can't figure out from there > what they actually do. (Untested, based on what I remember): \start = \bgroup \stop = \egroup but \start scans the next argument, so there are situations when \start may fail but \bgroup works. \start[whatever] ... \stop = \startwhatever ... \stopwhatever Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________