At 08:51 PM 2/3/2002 +0100, Johannes H�sing wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>coming across a problem with encoding I searched my private
>mailing list archive and found this question:
>
>On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:54:54AM +0200, Petr Ferdus wrote:
>[...]
> > Also, would it be possible to have # char in the name of XML entity? Like:
> >
> > \defineXMLentity [#937] {$\Omega$} %instead of
> > \defineXMLentity [937] {$\Omega$}
> >
> > because it seems to be rather conforming to naming convention of entities
> > based on unicode position  of its glyph (Ω in this case).
> >
>
>That would be a feature I would value very much. Has this been accomplished
>already? I see ConTeXt in a quite confused state about the hash sign when
>I try the above.

hashes are very special to tex, and once they end up in macro bodies they 
spontaniously replicate etc etc

i even think (but taco should confirm that) that once the # is in the line 
buffer, there is no way to get rid of the # message

Hans

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