Re: buffer question

Aditya Mahajan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.context
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 16 Apr 2026, Jim Diamond wrote:
> Without having done my Lua programming yet, am I correct in assuming that
> if someone calls this \makePreamble as follows
>         \makePreamble{0.5"}
> then Bad Things will happen because of the " in the argument?

The normal way to fix this is to use [[#1]] as quotes. [=[..]=] also works (this allows [[ ... ]] to be part of string), as does [==[..]==] and so on. Context defines \!bs .. \!es (begin string and end string) which I think maps to [===[ ... ]===]

Aditya
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