From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2209 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \pounds problem Date: 02 Jun 2000 09:39:45 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <000501bfcb2b$d0919fa0$530761c3@chris> <3.0.6.32.20000602004514.00b7e260@pop.wxs.nl> <000901bfcc92$a8982ce0$e60761c3@chris> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035392996 6997 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:09:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:09:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Hans Hagen" , "ConTeXT Mailing List" Original-To: "Christopher G D Tipper" In-Reply-To: "Christopher G D Tipper"'s message of "Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:00:50 +0300" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2209 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2209 "Christopher G D Tipper" 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. -- --Ed Cashin PGP public key: ecashin@coe.uga.edu http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/