On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 May 2009, luigi scarso wrote:
>
> > I think the point is this :
> > in some situations one find useful to convert things like • in macros
> like
> > \item .
> > Of course, it can be done with  preprocessing , or with some ad-hoc
> macros in
> > lua code , etc
> > So, apart \remapcharacter, are there  any other safe ways to "remap
> character"
> > ?
>
> Wolfgang mentioned the method with active character.
> And there is also this one:
>
> \startluacode
> function my_replace(line)
>        return line:gsub('• ', '\\item ')
> end
> callback.register('process_input_buffer', my_replace)
> \stopluacode
> \starttext
> \startitemize
> • bla
> • bla
> • bla
> \stopitemize
> \stoptext
>
> I like the latter one, because it permits also replacing whole words and
> much more. But you need to be careful, see also:
> http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080404.200709.454e4740.en.html
> ;)
>
>
This is what I mean .

-- 
luigi