Am 28.01.2012 um 16:41 schrieb Marco Pessotto: > > Dear list, > > I swear I searched the internet, but I guess the terms are too generic. > The question is: is there a safe way to escape the square brackets, > preventing them to be eaten by the previous command? For example: > > \item [this should be in brackets] > > My solution is: > > \define\leftsquarebracket{[} > \define\rightsquarebracket{]} > > \item \leftsquarebracket this should be in brackets\rightsquarebracket > > I'm pretty sure there is already a built-in command for them, so I'm > asking the list.
No, there isn’t but you can stop ConTeXt to look for a optional with a \relax after the command , e.g. \item\relax. Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________