On 6/24/2020 7:59 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Hans Hagen schrieb am 24.06.2020 um 19:06:

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On 6/24/2020 6:33 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Hi,

when asciimode is enabled the \type command ignores double comment symbols.

\starttext

\quotation{\type{%}}

\quotation{\type{%%}}

\asciimode

\quotation{\type{%}}

\quotation{\type{%%}}

\stoptext

It's actually a feature: in ascimode double % is the comment and content is preprocessed. originally asciimode was just for math and we still wanted a way to have comments.

I can't remember the details when the command was added (I know there was \nonknuthmode) but in this example it works in a unexpected way (the % are removed but the following text is kept).

There is no need for \asciimode in my document but I use it sometimes when I have symbols I don't want to replace.

It's a side effect of buffers: each \type ends up in a buffer and that actually is a file on its own.

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But ... we can have

\unexpanded\def\literalmode{\setcatcodetable\txtcatcodes}

and then:

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I'll add that command, assuming that someone will document it somewhere.

Not really needed in this case but I'm going to document it. I already bet on that -)

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