Re: \pounds problem

[Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coe.uga.edu>]

"Christopher G D Tipper" <ctipper@hol.gr> writes:

...
> \def\pounds{\char191}
...
> ! Bad character code (19120).  l.163 ...Raphael has called it the
> \pounds 20
>                                           problem. Given \pounds 20,
> he ?  ! Emergency stop.
> 
> Obviously it is appending the 20 in £20 to the character code. Is
> there a TeX trick for forcing it out of \char mode?

Yes, in plain tex you would change this ...

    \def\pounds{\char191}

... to this ...

    \def\pounds{\char191\relax }

The space is probably not necessary there.  There's probably a more
elegant context-y way to handle characters that would integrate more
with context's high-level features.

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