Thanks for the piece of code. The macro is temporary - not systematic. It should just help me to restyle some copy-pasted text from Word to .mkiv source. This way, I'm just prefixing such lines with e.g. \foo, no extra job is necassary, just to create a valid body of the macro (\dofoo). Lukas On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:45:06 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Am 07.04.2011 um 11:27 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.:

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Hello,

how to define a macro to take the new-line character as end-of-parameter?

The following macro:

\def\T#1\par{#1}

takes everything until \par (or empty line as it equals \par primitive) as #1, so the following is valid:

\T abc def\par \T abc

\T def

(#1 becomes: "abc def", "abc" and "def".)

How to define the same macro to accept end-of-line as end-of-parameter?

I tried (although I'm aware this may not lead to the goal):

\def\T#1^^M{#1}

or

\def\T#1\crlf{#1}

to allow writing:

\T abc def \T abc \T def

So how to define the macro?

\bgroup \obeylines \gdef\foo{\bgroup\obeylines\dofoo}% \gdef\dofoo#1 {\egroup% “#1”}% \egroup

\starttext <\foo some text

...

\stoptext

but don’t use it because this isn’t context style and we have already enough exceptions with \DESCRIPTION and \item.

Wolfgang

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