Re: [NTG-context] Incompatibility catcodes of characters in ConTeXt and PlainTeX
Dne 27.2.2015 v 19:04 Hans Hagen napsal(a): On 2/27/2015 5:53 PM, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: Hello ConTeXist. Petr Olsak (maintainer of Czech/Slovak support for TeX) helped me with simple typing of sign charts. He made a PlainTeX macro who is working too in ConTeXt (see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/230273/typing-of-math-sign-charts). Petr Olsak (not ConTeXt even LaTeX user) was modified PlainTeX macro to work in ConTeXt and asked the question: "Does anybody know why ConTeXt sets catcode of & to 12? This means that it is incompatible with plain TeX". Which is imo no big deal. I did not write that he would give redoing some work, after discovering that catcode & is different than in plainTEX. May I therefore ask , what is the reason that has character & catcode other than in Knuth PlainTeX? There are catcodes of other characters incompatible? Because the context table mechanisms don't use & (and never used it) so ther ei sno reason to make & special. The _ and ^ are also normal characters. For now we keep the $ for math (and in math mode the & ^ _ work as expected). Although we're to some extend plain compatible it's not our aim, just like we're not amstex, latex, lamstex or anytex compatible. Ok. Thanks for the explanation. I wrote to Peter that developer context to have a reason, and certainly it would from an ordinary whim not done. Even so, I am very satisfied with the degree of compatibility. Practically all of my old PlainTeX macros in ConTeXt work fine. Thanx Jaroslav Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ 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 ___ ___ 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 ___
[NTG-context] siunitx feature in unit module
Hi,
with siunitx LaTeX package its possible to obtain physics units like m/s
printed in different way changing one option:
e.g.
\si{\metre\per\second} produce ms^{-1}
\si[per-mode=symbol]{\metre\per\second} produce m/s
\si[per-mode=fraction]{\metre\per\second} produce \frac{m}{s}
have the unit module the same feature? If yes how can obtain the effect
(I didn't find nothing on the manual)?
Thank you for help
--
Andrea De Michele
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Re: [NTG-context] No escape to TeX for inline typing?
On Wed, Wed, 18 Feb 2015 07:03:27 +0100, wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 16:30:13 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster <
> schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Am 17.02.2015 um 16:04 schrieb Christoph Reller <
> > christoph.rel...@gmail.com>:
> > > How do I escape to TeX from inside an inline typing command? It works
> > fine from a typing environment.
> >
> > The \type command doesn’t support a escape function but it can be added
> an
> > additional line in the code (buff-ver.miv):
> >
> > \def\buff_verbatim_type_normal#1%
> > {\buff_verbatim_initialize_type_two
> >\dostarttaggedchained\t!verbatim\currenttype\??type
> >\ctxcommand{typestring{
> > data= \!!bs\detokenize{#1}\!!es,
> > tab = "\typeparameter\c!tab",
> > method = "\typeparameter\c!option",
> > +escape = \!!bs\typeparameter\c!escape\!!es,
> > nature = "inline",
> > compact = "\typeparameter\c!compact", % none | all | last (all
> needed
> > in tabulate etc for manuals)
> > }}%
> >\dostoptagged
> >\buff_verbatim_right_of_type
> >\egroup}
> >
> > To enable the function add „escape=yes” (or your own delimiters) to
> > \definetype.
> >
> > Wolfgang
> >
>
> Thanks a lot, Wolfgang!
>
> Dear Hans,
>
> Can you please add the above patch, or is there a particular reason for not
> doing so?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Christoph
>
Dear Hans,
Please say at least "yes" or "no". I am not very keen on maintaining my own
version of ConTeXt so I would like to know if I can count on this feature
being added.
Thanks for your effort and kind regards,
Christoph
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