On 9/30/2013 11:44 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Lars Huttar wrote: > >> I found \start and \stop referenced in the context reference manual >> (e.g. section 5.5). >> While \startXYZ - \stopXYZ pairs are discussed earlier, I can't find any >> place that \start and \stop (with no suffix) are described. >> They seem to be used like \bgroup and \egroup. Is that right? >> They are defined in core-sys.mkiv, but I can't figure out from there >> what they actually do. > > (Untested, based on what I remember): > > \start = \bgroup > \stop = \egroup > > but \start scans the next argument, so there are situations when > \start may fail but \bgroup works. > > \start[whatever] ... \stop = \startwhatever ... \stopwhatever >
Ouch, that sounds like two very different behaviors, depending on whether an argument is present. I think I'll document \start at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/start but take the usage of it out of the ref man's examples, replacing it with { and }, as long as the examples still work. It's not important to any of the examples. Thanks, Aditya and Luigi, for the quick assist. Lars > > Aditya > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry > to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________