On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:16:06AM -0500, Eythan Weg wrote:
>
> Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com>
> Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:20:01 +0100
>
> Am 24.02.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Eythan Weg:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just installed beta.
> >
> > The line:
> >
> > \starttext
> > \halign{&\hfil#\hfil\quad\cr This& That\cr1&2\cr}
> > \stoptext
> >
> > is not typeset and the & are left in place. What could be the problem?
>
> Since a while ^, _ and & can be used in text mode like any other character.
>
> You can disable this with \donknuthmode at the begin of your document or
> use the \aligntab where you would normally use & but the best thing is
> to use one of contexts build in table environment.
>
> Wolfgang
>
> Thank you. I think that \halign, being a primitive of tex, should be
> respected. If a user wants to use it, it should be usable
> unconditionally.
I've no idea from where you came with this impression, is is usually the
other way around; people are advised not to use low level TeX code where
context has higher level interfaces, else you are on your own and should
be aware of the implications/side effects.
I, for one, grateful that I know longer need to escape regular
characters in my documents just to keep supporting some obscure TeX
feature.
Regards,
Khaled
--
Khaled Hosny
Egyptian
Arab
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