The test using \removepunctuation that you provided does what it should be
doing (it produces 6 instances of "test-test" with the intervening
punctuation mark in each case removed), but it doesn't do what I'm trying
to do in the MWE above. I'm trying to take certain punctuation marks that
follow the \autopuncttest macro and place them before it instead. Looking
at the typo-chr .lua and .mkiv files, I see that there are \pushpunctuation
and \poppunctuation methods in addition to the \removepunctuation method.
These might be useful for this purpose, but in any case, I still have to
check if the trailing character is one of the characters in a specified
set/string, and this is where the error is arising.
Joey
On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 12:50 PM Hans Hagen
On 10/9/2021 5:40 PM, Joey McCollum via ntg-context wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to define concise biblatex-style citation macros for a custom bibliographic style specification with support for intelligent placement of trailing punctuation, and I've encountered an unusual error. If I try to define the macros within the btxrenderingdefinitions environment, then the code for handling trailing punctuation with the \doifinstring and \doifnotinstring macros fails in some cases. Specifically, it correctly detects when the trailing punctuation is a period, comma, or semicolon, but not when it is a colon, exclamation point, or question mark. The following MWE reproduces the error:
``` \starttext
test,\removepunctuation -test test;\removepunctuation -test test:\removepunctuation -test test?\removepunctuation -test test!\removepunctuation -test test.\removepunctuation -test
\stoptext
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