On 5/26/2014 9:28 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

Dear list,

I have the following sample:

\starttext \type{{\em\de Textsatzsystem}} \footnote{\type{{\em\de Textsatzsystem}}.} \stoptext

Only in the footnote \em has an extra unrequired space.

I don’t have no idea about how TeX works here. As I wrote in a previous message, this is far beyond my understanding.

It has to do with catcodes and tex adding a space after a stringified \cs so passing as argument is fragile. There is already some magic in place for \foo{bar} cases so I've added a (less tested) aggressive option 'absolute'. \definetype[TeXcodeA][option=TEX] \definetype[TeXcodeB][option=TEX,compact=all] \definetype[TeXcodeC][option=TEX,compact=absolute] \def\argA#1{\TeXcodeA{{#1}}} \def\argB#1{\TeXcodeB{{#1}}} \def\argC#1{\TeXcodeC{{#1}}} \starttext \startlines \argA {\em\de Textsatzsystem} \argB {\em\de Textsatzsystem} \argC {\em\de Textsatzsystem} \TeXcodeA{{\em\de Textsatzsystem}} \TeXcodeB{{\em\de Textsatzsystem}} \TeXcodeC{{\em\de Textsatzsystem}} \blank \argA {\em \de Textsatzsystem} \argB {\em \de Textsatzsystem} \argC {\em \de Textsatzsystem} \TeXcodeA{{\em \de Textsatzsystem}} \TeXcodeB{{\em \de Textsatzsystem}} \TeXcodeC{{\em \de Textsatzsystem}} \stoplines \stoptext In uploaded beta.

Is there no way to have the same results in footnote?

Many thanks for your help,

Pablo

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