On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 6:21 PM Jairo A. del Rio wrote:
>
> Thank, Wolfgang! Both methods work, but both fail with the following example:
>
> \pushmacro\unexpanded
> \let\unexpanded\normalunexpanded
> \input xstring
> \popmacro\unexpanded
> \starttext
> \StrGobbleLeft{bcdef}{4}
> \stoptext
>
> The
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 5:19 PM Wolfgang Schuster
wrote:
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> Bad idea because ConTeXt also changes the meaning of \protected (you can
> use \normalprotected to get the primitve).
Oops, forgot about that one.
> A better version is
>
> \pushmacro\unexpanded
> \let\unexpanded\normalunexpanded
>
Hi Jairo,
ConTeXt's \unexpanded is e-TeX's \protected, so the error boils down to
something like: \edef\x{\unexpanded{#}}, which works in Plain but not in
ConTeXt.
Usually packages that claim to be generic have to cope with that.
xstring would need to do (in a ConTeXt-specific loader):
