On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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Hi,

In core-rul.tex we have

%D We define the general (and original) case by just saying: \defineframedtext[\v!framedtext]

This defines

\startframedtext ... \stopframedtext and \framedtext{...}

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This gives strange user behavior. Consider the following

\defineframedtext[test][width=broad]

\showframe \starttext

\starttest \input tufte \stoptest

\startframedtext[test] \input tufte \stopframedtext

This should be:

\dostartframedtext[test] ... \dostopframedtext

The "[test]" is interpreted as optional argument for the predefined \startframedtext ... \stopframedtext environment.

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\stoptext

The two framedtext have different widths. Why not say

\def\startframedtext {\dosingleempty\dostartframedtext}

\def\stopframedtext{\dostopframedtext}

Take a look into core-rul.tex,

\startframedtext is a short form for \dostartframedtext[framedtext] and \starttest for \dostartframedtext[test].

I understand why this is happening. However, I think that the behaviour is inconsistent with how rest of the things behave, and was asking for a change in core-rul.tex. Aditya