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Vedran Miletić

14 Mar 2011 14 Mar '11

3:11 p.m.

Consider two .tex files located at http://www.inf.uniri.hr/~vmiletic/art-pre/ with same content: context --mode=article art-pre.tex works right, context --mode=article art+pre.tex fails with ! Undefined control sequence. system > tex > error on line 7 in file art+pre.tex: Undefined control sequence ... Should + not be used? It seems to work ok without modes, but I haven't tested deeply. Regards, Vedran Miletić

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Marco

14 Mar 14 Mar

4:24 p.m.

On 2011-03-14 Vedran Miletić wrote:

Consider two .tex files located at http://www.inf.uniri.hr/~vmiletic/art-pre/ with same content:

context --mode=article art-pre.tex works right, context --mode=article art+pre.tex fails with

! Undefined control sequence.

system > tex > error on line 7 in file art+pre.tex: Undefined control sequence ...

Should + not be used?

Only ascii letters from [a-z] are supported as far as I know. If anything else works, be happy but it's not guaranteed. It's a bug - or maybe better - a known restriction and if I'm not mistaken it's mentioned somewhere in one of the manuals. Additionally you can find a discussion on the mailing list several weeks/months ago.

It seems to work ok without modes, but I haven't tested deeply.

As mentioned above, use it on your own risk, it may fail. Marco

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4:31 p.m.

Vedran Miletić writes:

Should + not be used? It seems to work ok without modes, but I haven't tested deeply.

There is now an entry in the FAQ: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/FAQ#Why_should_I_only_use_letters.2C_digits_an... -- Peter

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Vedran Miletić

15 Mar 15 Mar

2:17 a.m.

2011/3/14 Peter Münster

Vedran Miletić writes:

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Should + not be used? It seems to work ok without modes, but I haven't tested deeply.

There is now an entry in the FAQ:

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/FAQ#Why_should_I_only_use_letters.2C_digits_an...

Thanks, but this says nothing about "+" character specifically. Shouldn't it be in the same category as "-"? Regards, Vedran Miletić

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Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.

2:32 a.m.

Hello -

2011/3/14 Peter Münster

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Vedran Miletić writes:

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Should + not be used? It seems to work ok without modes, but I haven't tested deeply.

There is now an entry in the FAQ:

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/FAQ#Why_should_I_only_use_letters.2C_digits_an...

Thanks, but this says nothing about "+" character specifically. Shouldn't it be in the same category as "-"?

(Probably not so related to Ctx and OSs other than Win - "-" was DOS valid character but "+" was not: http://www.bsdg.org/swag/DOS/0082.PAS.html Win command "copy" and "xcopy" treats "+" as a separator of file names for some special action.) BTW: When talking about special characters of file names again - - I'd vote for '_', '~', '@', '$' and '!' to be valid chars in file names as well. Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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3:12 a.m.

Vedran Miletić writes:

Thanks, but this says nothing about "+" character specifically.

It's easier and less error-prone to say what characters are guaranteed to work, than to say what characters could cause problems. There are a lot more characters, that you could try: !"'`§$%&/()=?{[]}\*,;:_°^|<>@ and all kind of 8-bit characters of course! -- Peter

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