On Nov 13, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>> On Nov 11, 2008, at 11:58 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>
>>> from enco-ini.mkiv
>>>
>>> \def\definecharacter#1 #2 %
>>>  {}
>>>
>>> You could use \definecommand.
>>>
>>> Wolfgang
>>
>> Wolfgang, thanks for pointing me to this. What is the reason of this
>> unfriendly behavior? I can understand if the \definecharacter command
>> is gone in mkiv, but simply taking the arguments and sending them  
>> into
>> nirvana? It was a bit difficult for me to see where the errors in my
>> environments came from, so I'm really wondering what this is supposed
>> to do.
>
> well, i was not aware of users using \definecharacter
>
> (i can make it a chardef if needed)
>
Hey, you should know that your users use ConTeXt for all kinds of  
weird and deviant purposes :-)

I have it in some of my private modules/environments, e.g. for  
creating symbols and a metrical font. What would you suggest using  
instead?

Best

Thomas
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