Am 11.11.2011 um 16:53 schrieb Andreas Harder:

On 11.11.2011, at 16:34, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

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Hi Hans,

quite often I wish we could have a kind of in line comment: Something like ¿this is my comment¡ this.

Isn't there already \comment{…}?

\starttext test \comment{comment} test \stoptext

The \comment command can be used to add PDF comments to your document, IIRC it’s documented in the widgets manual. Wolfgang

On 13.11.2011 11:55, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

I am looking for the same functionality as the traditional TeX comment (starting with %), but used in-line not only after a paragraph.

That sounds a bit strange, because a paragraph doesn't end with a line break. That's how I usually do my comments too; just add a comment and continue after the line break with the content/sentence/paragraph: -----8<---------------- This is %some comment an example. ----->8---------------- ... will end up as: "This is an example." -- Best Regards, Andreas Schneider

On 14-11-2011 08:57, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

Am 13.11.2011 um 22:33 schrieb Andreas Schneider:

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On 13.11.2011 11:55, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

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I am looking for the same functionality as the traditional TeX comment (starting with %), but used in-line not only after a paragraph.

That sounds a bit strange, because a paragraph doesn't end with a line break. That's how I usually do my comments too; just add a comment and continue after the line break with the content/sentence/paragraph:

-----8<---------------- This is %some comment an example. ----->8----------------

... will end up as: "This is an example."

maybe "paragraph" was the wrong word (even though in your example between "comment" and "an" there is a pilcrow too, which is commonly used to denote individual paragraphs).

that's what I meant: a true in-line comment ... without a line-break, parapgraph-break, pilcrow for ending the comment:

This is ¿some comment¡ an example.

and next one would want: This is ¿some comment¡ an example. and \startchapter[title={This is ¿some comment¡ an example.}] and ... so it's asking for a mess. Just use a command as Wolfgang mentioned. 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:22:17 -0700, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

I just wanted to answer Idris question and wait what he thinks.

Your request is a bit different from what I had in mind ... OTOH, why not just use bla bla \message{Here is a note to myself.} bla bla It'll show up in the log file, but who cares? :-) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shiʿi Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Am 15.11.2011 um 23:03 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد:

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:38:42 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:

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OTOH, why not just use bla bla \message{Here is a note to myself.} bla bla

Just curious: Is there anything that \message is missing for what u want? I tried both inline and multiline combos and they all work like a charm:

When you use \gobbleoneargument you can omit the output in the log.

========== \starttext Here is some text. \message{Given an action, the recompense is always in proportion to the degree of participation in Consciousness involved.} Here is some text.

Here is some text. \message{Given an action, the recompense is always in proportion to the degree of participation in Consciousness involved.} Here is some text.

Here is some text. \message{Given an action, the recompense is always in proportion to the degree of participation in Consciousness involved.} Here is some text.

Here is some text. \message{Given an action, the recompense is always in proportion to the degree of participation in Consciousness involved.} Here is some text. \stoptext ==========

You see that there are now two spaces between your sentences, compare the following two sentences: \starttext text \message{hidden} text text\message{hidden} text \stoptext To avoid this I added \removeunwantedspaces to my \hide command. Wolfgang

Dear Aditya, Wolfgang, On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:11:55 -0700, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

When you use \gobbleoneargument you can omit the output in the log. : To avoid this I added \removeunwantedspaces to my \hide command.

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:28:24 -0700, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

Untested, but I am pretty sure

\message{\iffalse}

will fail. Basically, everything inside \message (or the \hide macro by Wolfgang) needs to be processed by TeX, so strictly speaking it is not equivalent to a comment.

See the TeX FAQ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=conditional for more details.

The most robust solution is to use buffers, but that will not work if the buffer is part of a macro argument.

The luatex solution (which is again not perfect) that I posted removes everything inside the comment before it is seeen by TeX.

Thank you both for your insightful answers. I appreciate it! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

On 14-11-2011 09:47, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

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quite often I wish we could have a kind of in line comment: Something like ¿this is my comment¡ this.

I assume it is not trivial due to catcode issues, to say the least. But nevertheless, as it is getting close to christmas, I just wanted to mention this idea here.

As long as there is no line break in the comment, the following lua based solution works (inspired by m-translate)

\startluacode local comments = {} thirddata = thirddata or {}

thirddata.comments = comments

function comments.translate(s) return string.gsub(s, "¿.-¡","") end

local textlineactions = resolvers.openers.helpers.textlineactions utilities.sequencers.appendaction(textlineactions,"after","thirddata.comments.translate")

function comments.enable() utilities.sequencers.enableaction(textlineactions,"thirddata.comments.translate")

end

function comments.disable() utilities.sequencers.disableaction(textlineactions,"thirddata.comments.translate")

end

comments.disable() \stopluacode

\def\enablecomments {\ctxlua{thirddata.comments.enable()}} \def\disablecomments{\ctxlua{thirddata.comments.disable()}}

\appendtoks \enablecomments \to \everystarttext

\starttext \section{An ¿in \iffalse comment¡ works} Multiple ¿in \iffalse comment¡ with something ¿in \iffalse comment¡ in betweeen \stoptext

or ... \startluacode thirddata = thirddata or { } local comments = { filters = { } } thirddata.comments = comments local textlineactions = resolvers.openers.helpers.textlineactions local sequencers = utilities.sequencers local constants = interfaces.constants local gsub, find, format = string.gsub, string.find, string.format function comments.install(name,settings) local settings = utilities.parsers.settings_to_hash(settings) local start = string.escapedpattern(settings[constants.start] or "") local stop = string.escapedpattern(settings[constants.stop] or "") if start ~= "" and stop ~= "" then local pattern = start .. ".-" .. stop comments.filters[name] = function(s) if s == "" then return "" elseif find(s,start) then return (gsub(s,pattern,"")) else return s end end sequencers.appendaction(textlineactions,"after",format("thirddata.comments.filters.%s",name)) comments.disable(name) end end function comments.enable(name) sequencers.enableaction(textlineactions,format("thirddata.comments.filters.%s",name)) end function comments.disable(name) sequencers.disableaction(textlineactions,format("thirddata.comments.filters.%s",name)) end \stopluacode \unprotect \unexpanded\def\installcomments{\dodoubleargument\doinstallcomments} \def\doinstallcomments[#1][#2]% {\ctxlua{thirddata.comments.install(\!!bs#1\!!es,\!!bs\detokenize{#2}\!!es)}} \unexpanded\def\enablecomments[#1]% {\ctxlua{thirddata.comments.enable (\!!bs#1\!!es)}} \unexpanded\def\disablecomments[#1]% {\ctxlua{thirddata.comments.disable(\!!bs#1\!!es)}} \protect \installcomments[test] [start=¿,stop=¡] \installcomments[test2][start=¡,stop=¿] \enablecomments[test] \enablecomments[test2] \starttext \section{An ¿in \iffalse comment¡ works} Multiple ¿in \iffalse comment¡ with something ¿in \iffalse comment¡ in betweeen oeps ¿oeps¡ oeps ¡oeps¿ oeps \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 14-11-2011 09:47, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

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quite often I wish we could have a kind of in line comment: Something like ¿this is my comment¡ this.

I assume it is not trivial due to catcode issues, to say the least. But nevertheless, as it is getting close to christmas, I just wanted to mention this idea here.

As long as there is no line break in the comment, the following lua based solution works (inspired by m-translate)

or ...

Why not go all the way with full multiline comments then? See attached.

Here is a slightly cleanup version that handles multiline comments better https://github.com/adityam/context-comments/blob/master/t-comments.mkvi But this will only work if % has its usual catcode. I don't know how to get around that limitation. Aditya