On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, "Guðmundur J. Kristjánsson" wrote:
> Just a quick note regarding "silentness" in Context.
>
> I have on two occasions had problems with silent errors:
>
> 1) When using the bib module and putting spaces between citation
> variables and their value. For example, doing:
>
> \startpublication[k = ArcticCorsairTrawling,
> t = misc]
>
> instead of
>
> \startpublication[k=ArcticCorsairTrawling,
> t=misc]
>
> 2) When trying to define an abstract command:
> \definestartstop
> [abstract]
> [before={\midaligned{\bf Abstract} \startnarrower[2*middle]},
> after={\stopnarrower \blank[big]}]
>
> In this case the command was defined when I used "...before = ..." but
> did not alter the text in any way.
>
> So after all this rambling I have two questions:
> 1) Is this silent mode intended?
No, this is the usual behaviour.
> 2) Is whitespace not allowed before or after when defining with or using
> the "=" sign?
Parially, space after = is fine, space before = is ignored silently.
This is because with
\dosetvalue {one}{a}{ b}
\onea is defined,
while with
\dosetvalue {one}{a }{ b}
\onea is undefined.
Hans, can \dosetvalue be defined to ignore the space of #2, something
like
\unprotect
\def\dosetvalue#1#2#3%
{\dodosetvalue{#1}[#2]#3}
\def\dodosetvalue#1[#2#3]#4%
{\doifelse{#3}{\space}
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With this
\dosetvalue {one}{a }{ b}
(\onea)
works, but this does not work for
\definestartstop
[abstract]
[before = {{\bf Abstract}}]
I do not know the implication in terms of speed. In case there is a
heavy penality, one can have a switch to ignore spaces in value
assignments.
Aditya
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