Re: [NTG-context] The odd semantics of \begincsname

2019-08-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/17/2019 10:56 AM, Henri Menke wrote: On 17/08/19 8:48 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 8/17/2019 9:19 AM, Henri Menke wrote: Dear list, According to the LuaTeX documentation: “The \begincsname primitive is like \csname but doesn’t create a relaxed equivalent when there is no such nam

Re: [NTG-context] The odd semantics of \begincsname

2019-08-17 Thread Henri Menke
On 17/08/19 8:48 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 8/17/2019 9:19 AM, Henri Menke wrote: >> Dear list, >> >> According to the LuaTeX documentation: >> >> “The \begincsname primitive is like \csname but doesn’t create a >> relaxed equivalent when there is no such name.” >> >> I thought it would b

Re: [NTG-context] The odd semantics of \begincsname

2019-08-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/17/2019 9:19 AM, Henri Menke wrote: Dear list, According to the LuaTeX documentation: “The \begincsname primitive is like \csname but doesn’t create a relaxed equivalent when there is no such name.” I thought it would be possible to use this fact to skip the \relax-ed definition

[NTG-context] The odd semantics of \begincsname

2019-08-17 Thread Henri Menke
Dear list, According to the LuaTeX documentation: “The \begincsname primitive is like \csname but doesn’t create a relaxed equivalent when there is no such name.” I thought it would be possible to use this fact to skip the \relax-ed definition when \def-ining a new control sequence, but