On 4/22/2018 5:23 PM, N. Raghavendra wrote:

I was wondering if it is alright to use underscores in the names of macros, e.g, as in the following file. It looks like \startsetups, and \def accept names with hyphens, underscores, and numerals, but \starttexdefinition doesn't tolerate any of them.

1. In general, what characters are allowed in macro names? Are Unicode characters admissible?

letters are (and _ is not a letter, unless we're in unprotected mode)

2. Apart from the fact that one can use whitespace freely in \starttexdefinition, is there any reason to prefer it over \def?

depends ... sometimes more readble ... spaces are ignores ... you can use named parameters

Thanks, Raghu.

------------------------------------------------------------ \starttext

\startsetups [hello-world_1] Hello, world 1! \stopsetups

\setups [hello-world_1]

\def\hello-world_2{Hello, world 2!}

\hello-world_2

\starttexdefinition helloWorld Hello, world! \stoptexdefinition

\helloWorld

%% Doesn't work %% \starttexdefinition fooBar1 %% Foo, bar 1! %% \stoptexdefinition %% %% \fooBar1

%% Doesn't work %% \starttexdefinition foo_bar %% Foo, bar! %% \stoptexdefinition %% %% \foo_bar

%% Doesn't work %% \starttexdefinition foo-bar %% Foo, bar! %% \stoptexdefinition %% %% \foo-bar

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N. Raghavendra mailto:nyraghu27132@gmail.com 22. April 2018 um 17:23 I was wondering if it is alright to use underscores in the names of macros, e.g, as in the following file. It looks like \startsetups, and \def accept names with hyphens, underscores, and numerals, but \starttexdefinition doesn't tolerate any of them.

1. In general, what characters are allowed in macro names? Are Unicode characters admissible?

2. Apart from the fact that one can use whitespace freely in \starttexdefinition, is there any reason to prefer it over \def?

Thanks, Raghu.

------------------------------------------------------------ \starttext

\startsetups [hello-world_1] Hello, world 1! \stopsetups

\setups [hello-world_1]

\def\hello-world_2{Hello, world 2!} You’re defining a command named \hello which has to be followed by the string "-world_2".

You can use the following example as test. %%%% begin example \starttext \def\hello-1{Hello \letterhash 1} \def\hello-2{Hello \letterhash 2} \hello-1 \hello-2 \stoptext %%%% end example Here I create a command named \hello which has to be followed by “-1" and "-2". When you run TeX on this example you get the following error message: %%%% begin error message tex error > tex error on line 7 in file /Users/wolf/TeX/test/test.tex: ! Use of \hello doesn't match its definition l.7 \hello-1 %%%% end error message Wolfgang