Hi all, is the command \definecharacter deprecated in mkiv? Some of my environments stopped working. Minimal example: %\definecharacter mytest \char"00F8 \define\mytest{\getglyph{name:lmroman10book}{\char"00F8}} \starttext Hello w\mytest rld! \stoptext I expected lines 1 and 2 to work, but line 1 gives an error ("Undefined control sequence"). So: is this command no longer available in mkiv? All best Thomas
Am 11.11.2008 um 23:51 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz:
Hi all,
is the command \definecharacter deprecated in mkiv? Some of my environments stopped working. Minimal example:
%\definecharacter mytest \char"00F8 \define\mytest{\getglyph{name:lmroman10book}{\char"00F8}}
\starttext
Hello w\mytest rld!
\stoptext
I expected lines 1 and 2 to work, but line 1 gives an error ("Undefined control sequence"). So: is this command no longer available in mkiv?
from enco-ini.mkiv \def\definecharacter#1 #2 % {} You could use \definecommand. Wolfgang
On Nov 11, 2008, at 11:58 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
from enco-ini.mkiv
\def\definecharacter#1 #2 % {}
You could use \definecommand.
Wolfgang
Wolfgang, thanks for pointing me to this. What is the reason of this unfriendly behavior? I can understand if the \definecharacter command is gone in mkiv, but simply taking the arguments and sending them into nirvana? It was a bit difficult for me to see where the errors in my environments came from, so I'm really wondering what this is supposed to do. Thomas
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Nov 11, 2008, at 11:58 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
from enco-ini.mkiv
\def\definecharacter#1 #2 % {}
You could use \definecommand.
Wolfgang
Wolfgang, thanks for pointing me to this. What is the reason of this unfriendly behavior? I can understand if the \definecharacter command is gone in mkiv, but simply taking the arguments and sending them into nirvana? It was a bit difficult for me to see where the errors in my environments came from, so I'm really wondering what this is supposed to do.
well, i was not aware of users using \definecharacter (i can make it a chardef if needed) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Nov 13, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Nov 11, 2008, at 11:58 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
from enco-ini.mkiv
\def\definecharacter#1 #2 % {}
You could use \definecommand.
Wolfgang
Wolfgang, thanks for pointing me to this. What is the reason of this unfriendly behavior? I can understand if the \definecharacter command is gone in mkiv, but simply taking the arguments and sending them into nirvana? It was a bit difficult for me to see where the errors in my environments came from, so I'm really wondering what this is supposed to do.
well, i was not aware of users using \definecharacter
(i can make it a chardef if needed)
Hey, you should know that your users use ConTeXt for all kinds of weird and deviant purposes :-) I have it in some of my private modules/environments, e.g. for creating symbols and a metrical font. What would you suggest using instead? Best Thomas
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Nov 13, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Nov 11, 2008, at 11:58 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
from enco-ini.mkiv
\def\definecharacter#1 #2 % {}
You could use \definecommand.
Wolfgang Wolfgang, thanks for pointing me to this. What is the reason of this unfriendly behavior? I can understand if the \definecharacter command is gone in mkiv, but simply taking the arguments and sending them into nirvana? It was a bit difficult for me to see where the errors in my environments came from, so I'm really wondering what this is supposed to do. well, i was not aware of users using \definecharacter
(i can make it a chardef if needed)
Hey, you should know that your users use ConTeXt for all kinds of weird and deviant purposes :-)
I have it in some of my private modules/environments, e.g. for creating symbols and a metrical font. What would you suggest using instead?
\definecharacter etc were closely related to font encoding, so unless you defined them in 'default' encoding you had to replicate the definitions in each fotn encoding a more natural variant for your case is \definesymbol or just \def\MyFunnySymbol{...} ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Nov 13, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
well, i was not aware of users using \definecharacter
(i can make it a chardef if needed)
Hey, you should know that your users use ConTeXt for all kinds of weird and deviant purposes :-)
I have it in some of my private modules/environments, e.g. for creating symbols and a metrical font. What would you suggest using instead?
\definecharacter etc were closely related to font encoding, so unless you defined them in 'default' encoding you had to replicate the definitions in each fotn encoding
Even in XeTeX or LuaTeX one had to define a character only once. \definecharacter worked just fine in both of them some time ago and I find it a pitty to remove it (if there is no serious reason to do so). Mojca
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Nov 13, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
well, i was not aware of users using \definecharacter
(i can make it a chardef if needed)
Hey, you should know that your users use ConTeXt for all kinds of weird and deviant purposes :-)
I have it in some of my private modules/environments, e.g. for creating symbols and a metrical font. What would you suggest using instead? \definecharacter etc were closely related to font encoding, so unless you defined them in 'default' encoding you had to replicate the definitions in each fotn encoding
Even in XeTeX or LuaTeX one had to define a character only once. \definecharacter worked just fine in both of them some time ago and I find it a pitty to remove it (if there is no serious reason to do so).
\def\definecharacter#1 #2 % {\doifnumberelse{\string#2} {\setevalue{\string#1}{\utfchar{#2}}} {\unexpanded\setvalue {\string#1}{#2}}} \def\definecommand#1 #2 % {\unexpanded\setvalue{\string#1}{#2}} ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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